Entry animation skipped at launch

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Hello,
i don’t know if i’m doing something wrong but i would definitly say it’s a bug and i’m surprised i couldn’t find any thread about it. I’ve tested it on 2020.2.3f1 and 2019.4.18f1

I have a simple animator with just a default state which scale up the panel. If I just hit “run” with the gameobject enabled, the animation will not be played, i’m right away set at the end of the default state.
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On the other hand, if i hit “run” with the gameobject disabled, then i enable it, the animation is properly played.
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I feel there are conflicts between the initialization of the animator and the project itself.

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If you log Time.deltaTime in Awake, you can see that the first frame on entering play mode usually has a massive value which will cause it to skip well into any animations and other time based stuff. I don’t think there’s really anything you can do about it.

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Thanks for you reply, it’d be great to mention it in the doc instead of looking for a mistake i didn’t make x)