Playing an Animation on a Animator controlled character

Unity Engine
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We have a character controller by a mechanim animator, and it works great.

However, in some case, we would like to shut down the state machine and play a specific list of animation clip on this character. (Ex.: A cinematic)

Anybody know how to do that? The last thing I want is to add all those animations in the animator.

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  1. Try to use Unity - Scripting API: Animator.StopPlayback

  2. If 1 doesn’ t work, you can try to enable Animator component while controlling the character with Animation component

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Actually, the Animation component appear to be unable to play AnimationClip made in Generic or Humanoid. It pops the warning that it should be in legacy…

So, what I found out is that the Animator component has a RuntimeAnimationController that can be changed.

When I want to play an specific animation, I make a controller with a single node in it and change the Animator for this one. I bring back the default one when I want the player to return to its normal stats.