Why doesn’t animation transitions support logical OR conditions?

I see a lot of topics on other sites regarding this (but it’s difficult to search these forums for “or” because it detects “animatOR”), and the answers are seemingly always create extra triggers or states, and then the rebuttals are often “but that doesn’t work in my case” and then you don’t see any comebacks...

This seems like really a basic flaw. Anyone have a general solution to this? For example, what happens when you have 8 directions and 4 buttons where you want at least a few of them to instantly override the others, regardless of which state you are in (but still perhaps want to use animation blending)?

 

Can 'exit time' be based on a trigger/event/parameter?

 

I did not understand that.

 

Yeah I noticed this right away. Its "AND" only. I think it has to do more with the UI -- Either all of the arguments are AND or else they're all OR. Mixing them means that order matters and you'd have to allow for (A or B) and C type groupings. I just made a boolean flag that does the calculation in code and pass it to the animator. Then you just need one condition without any ANDs or ORs.