Mecanim: change the animation even though it is not finish in playing

[LinkDot]

I need to change current animation even though it is not finish in palying.
example:
I’m in the middle of my slashing animation and then suddenly I press a button and it start to play another animation and stop my slashing animation in its middle of playing.

Note:
I’m using mecanim and not Legacy

Thanks in advance

[fafase]

have you tried to change the condition leading to the slashing?

you probably have something of the kind:

 anim.SetBool("Slashing",true);

then you can revert that anywhere in your script and start the other anim:

 anim.SetBool("Slashing",false);
 anim.SetBool("OtherAnim", true);

That should stop the animation and get back to Any State and based on all variables settings, it will start your second animation.

Now if you need to restart the same animation you can use

anim.Play(string stateName, int layer = -1, float normalizedTime = float.NegativeInfinity);

the third parameter defines where to start the animation. 0 should be the beginning.

Unity - Scripting API: Animator.Play

[mclankyman]

If you look at the image I have posted. say New State 0 is your slashing animation and New State 1 is your new animation.

Set the condition to a bool or something. Which you change to true in your script when you press this button.

For it to jump to the new animation straight away you need to close the start and end arrows of the overlap and move them to the start like I have at the yellow arrow.

This way none of the old animation will be blended with the new one.