Animation System

[system]

I’m currently making animation system for group of characters.

Basically, the idea is changing the animation should be as simple as changing the state.
However, the hardest part come when 1 kind of animation can have some variations (i.e. : Idle animation can have idle0, idle1, idle2, etc animation)

my main loop to that group of object is currently look like this

function Update ()
{
	var i : int;
	if (animState == AnimState.idle)
	{
		for (i=0; i < go_pike.length; i++)
		{
			if (! (	go_pike*.animation.IsPlaying("idle1") ||* 
					go_pike*.animation.IsPlaying("idle2")) )*
_*			{*_
_*				var type : int = Random.Range(0,2);*_
_*				print(i + "'s is "+ type);*_
				go_pike*.animation.CrossFadeQueued("idle"+type, 1, QueueMode.PlayNow);*
_*			}*_
_*		}*_
_*	}*_
_*	else if (animState == AnimState.run)*_
_*	{*_
*		for (i=0; i < go_pike.length; i++)*
_*		{*_
			if (!go_pike*.animation.IsPlaying("run"))*
				go_pike*.animation.CrossFade("run");*
_*		}*_
_*	}*_
_*}*_
_*

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I’ve tried changing CrossFade to CrossFadeQueued, and Play.
Play can work fine, but going from run to idle will be choppy. Same goes for QueueMode.CompleteOthers for CrossFadeQueued
I’ve also tried a semaphore idea and it didn’t work really well (the loop just finish much faster than what I would intend, ergo sending hundreds CrossFadeQueued even the model is still playing. And hence, the most active animation is the most apparent one).
I probably used a wrong approach here, so if someone ever done such animation system/manager, please share me some of your insight

[Waz]

Looks fine (with CrossFade, not queued), except you’re not testing if idle0 is already playing, and you’re only playing idle0 and idle1.

[system]

Well, I guess I was a bit impatient. I finally got it working by making the logic like this

if (animState == AnimState.idle)
	{
		for (i=0; i < go_pike.length; i++)
		{
			if ( go_pike*.animation.isPlaying)*
*			{	//if it's coming from other animation not of its own, then crossfade immediately*
				if(! (go_pike.animation.IsPlaying("idle0") || go_pike*.animation.IsPlaying("idle1")) )*
_*				{*_
					go_pike*.animation.CrossFade("idle"+Random.Range(0,2));*
_*				}*_
_*			}*_
_*			else*_
_*			{*_
_*				//if it's stop playing from its own animation (any idle animations)*_
				go_pike*.animation.CrossFade("idle"+Random.Range(0,2));*
_*			}*_
_*		}*_
_*	}*_
_*

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However, there could be some improvement on checking whether it’s coming from its animation or not (if(! (go_pike<em>.animation.IsPlaying("idle0") || go_pike*.animation.IsPlaying("idle1")) ))*
Is there a way to give some kind of wildcard to last index numbering ?