Usually, we can transition from one animation state to the next at the end of the animation using the “Exit Time”.
But iI have a specific case, that halfway through the animation, I’m changing the speed to negative, so it plays backward, but I would still like to arrive at the next state that would have been called by the “Exit Time”. Unfortunately, this doesn’t happen since the animation goes back to the start.
Is there a way to achieve this? How?
The only workaround I can think of, would be to track the current animation ‘time’ for the current state and when it reaches zero, force a transition to a target state.
As you say it’s a specific case and you won’t get your result without scripting it. I think your best bet is to perform a manual cross fade. You’d need to check the play time yourself and then do it. Check the Animator API for how to do this:
After some poking around, I learned the cleanest way to do this is to add a NEW transition for the state that is playing at a negative speed AND set ‘Exit Time’ to 0.
That way, when the animation reaches 0, it will trigger this new transition to the newly assigned state.