I’ve read a billion threads back from the ancient times of unity till now.
How do I get some info about a state in the animator that is not currently running? Like length of the animation?
Scenario you have an animator with 3 states, Idle, Walk, Attack
Each of these states have an animation clip Bunny_Idle, Bunny_Walk, Bunny_SavageAttack
At runtime the Animator is playing Idle
While Idle is playing I want to know:
“what is the length of the animation that is attached to the Attack State?”
Note the name of the animations are different than name of states, which is the big issue
if your States names are the same as the animation clips then you are covered just fine. you get the RuntimeAnimationController which gives you an array of all the animations in the controller and you check the animation length which one you need. But if you have different animation names you are screwed.
Animator Controllers don’t let you do that. You basically have 3 options:
Rely on the clip names like you said.
Pull out all the info you need using an editor script and serialize it separately (probably a waste of time because it’s not going to be any cleaner than just relying on the names).
Give up on Animator Controllers and use a different animation system without such stupid limitations.
for the base animator, for each state we provides a dummy animation clip with the same name as the state.
then we use animator override controller, and override with our actual animations.
in runtime, we get animator.runtimeAnimatorController as AnimatorOverrideController.
then use animatorOverrideController[stateName] to get the clip and query its length
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