Discussion What is the best workflow you've found for authoring frame data for attack animations?

Attack animations usually have a bunch of metadata for defining at which points the animation can be interrupted, how many windup/recovery frames there are, when to enable/disable hurtboxes, and potentially a lot more things like that. I thought about making a custom StateMachineBehavior for handling this stuff on a per-state basis, but I figured I should ask if more experienced people have found better/alternative ways to do all this.

 

My Animancer plugin lets you define custom classes to use as Transitions so for my Platformer Game Kit I made a transition with an array of hit data and a custom editor to let you visualise and edit the hit shape alongside the animation.

Something similar could probably be achieved with StateMachineBehaviours, though it might be tricky to set up a way to preview the hit shapes alongside the animation.