Reset All AnimationTriggers?

Hello all!

I understand that a simple ResetTrigger can be used to basically stop playing a current animation by calling it out specifically - for ex. I'm pretty sure something like GetComponent<Animator>().ResetTrigger("JogTrigger"); could theoretically stop a jog animation from playing.

However, I have a whole lot of animations that can flow into each other, and I definitely don't want to have to put a wall of reset triggers in my script. Is there a such thing as a "ResetAllTriggers" or something like that? Am I being too vague? I'm still very new to Unity.

Thank you all in advance!

 

ResetTrigger just resets a trigger that you previously set with SetTrigger. It doesn't stop playing the current animation.

Animator.parameters gives you access to all the parameters so you could implement a ResetAllTriggers method.

 

Yeah, you'll have to implement it yourself, like this:

private void ResetAllTriggers()
{
foreach (var param in Animator.parameters)
{
if (param.type == AnimatorControllerParameterType.Trigger)
{
Animator.ResetTrigger(param.name);
}
}
}

 

You can implement it as extension method

public static void ResetAllAnimatorTriggers(this Animator animator)
{
foreach (var trigger in animator.parameters)
{
if (trigger.type == AnimatorControllerParameterType.Trigger)
{
animator.ResetTrigger(trigger.name);
}
}
}

 

What does it mean to 'reset a trigger'?

According to Unity docs for `SetTrigger()`, "Triggers have a true option which automatically returns back to false". My understanding has been that when I use `SetTrigger()`, unlike a `bool` it will immediately reset ready for reuse. I'm obviously missing something.

 

Trigger will still active until its transition ended. So if you're calling several triggers, it will be "queued". This is why you need a ResetTrigger() method.

 

thank you for this!