Animation.Play() works only once the current frame is over

Unity Engine
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I’ve got an Animator containing AnimationClips that have translation data within them. Basically I like the idea of drawing up curves in AnimationClips and then I can use that data to move my characters about.

I sometimes need to raycast these movements so that the enemy doesn’t end up crashing in a wall and with AnimationClip.SampleAnimation(): I can evaluate the whole animation in a single frame in a for loop! Really cool.

Now one last problem remains: I can’t access the AnimationClips I want because they need to be playing with Animator.GetCurrentAnimatorClipInfo(_layer) and Animator.Play() only activates itself when the frame is over. So if I want to raycast a movement before getting into its movement, I will have to first lose 1 frame.

So every time I want to have access to a curve of an AnimationClip in the Animator, I need to play the state that contains the AnimationClip but to play it I must wait 1 frame. So my AI has frames where he does nothing.

Can I access AnimationClips within an Animator more easily than with Play()? What can I do in this situation?

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Well it looks like there’s no way to do that so I’m gonna have to switch over to the good ol Animation component.