Changing Mecanim speed without changing speed of transitions

[eco_bach]

Hi
Attached is a screen grab of my simple 2 state Mecanim graph used for a 2D animation. I have only Walking and Idle states. I also need to be able to change the speed of my walking character.
However when I globally change the speed of my Mecanim Animator component ( animator.speed = foo) the transitions change speed as well.

For instance in going from a Walking to Idle state I want my character to walk slower before entering the Idle state.
So the speed value lowers almost to zero with the net effect that the transition from Walking to Idle inside Mecanim doesn’t take place or does but only after a delay.
Does this make sense?
Is there a way around this?
This seems to be a huge limitation but perhaps I am not using Mecanim correctly. Perhaps i should be using layers?

[theANMATOR2b]

@eco_bach

For instance in going from a Walking to Idle state I want my character to walk slower before entering the Idle state.

@eco_bach

Is there a way around this?

Research blend tree in the docs.

[eco_bach]

Yes have tried CrossFade but it doesn’t seem to work because of my Transition States ‘Walk_to_Idle’ and ‘Idle_to-Walk’.
These transition states are client supplied transtion assets that must ALWAYS play when going from Walk to Idle or vice versa.

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