Using Motion Time as a transition condition.

I have a walking animation where the character makes really long strides, and I want to return to idle via a transition animation based on where in the animation phase the walk animation currently is. So that when if he stops walking with the right leg forward he plays a different transition animation idle than if he stops with the left leg forward.

I see that the motiontime is in the animationstates, so I guess I could read it from the controller and then feed it back in to a custom variable via script and use that as a condition, but it seems very roundabout. Is there a way to use it directly within the animationcontroller?

 

You can setup events in the animation clip itself. That event can be listened for and trigger whatever you like. Just look for animation events in the documentation. Note, there can be issues with events getting missed due to transition blending (if you are using mecanim). You could also use normalized time and just have a >= condition as the trigger too.

 

Thanks. I checked it out, but decided not to go with events since they can be missed. I sampled the normalized time and directed it back into the Controller as a condition.