Retrieve the animation clip that Animator is playing

Questions & Answers
1

How do I retrieve the animation clip that animator is playing?

Option B: I can give the name of the animation and the animator can tell me if it’s being played or not?

2

That was quite the rabbit hole, but I think I found what you need. If you just need to check if a certain animation is playing, that’s fairly easy:

if (myAnim.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo.IsName("Name of Animation Clip")
{
//Bunch of code, Replace myAnimator with a reference to your Animator component
}

Actually grabbing the name of the clip is a little more complicated, because Unity’s animation system can play multiple animations at once. You need to sift through an array:

int w = myAnim.GetCurrentAnimatorClipInfo(0).Length;
string[] clipName = new string[w];
for (int i = 0; i < w; i += 1)
{
     clipName _= myAnim.GetCurrentAnimatorClipInfo(0)*.clip.name;*_

}
If you’re only expecting one animation to be playing, then you can replace clipName with a normal string to keep things simpler.
I highly recommend reading through the docs on the Animator component, because there’s some weird, wonderful things in there that are worth knowing about!
_*https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Animator.html*_

3

Although I agree it has been answered many times - it’s not always correct, so please find the correct approach here:

if (GetComponent<Animator>().GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo(0).IsName(“Attack")){
       print("Playing attack anim!");
}

Keep in mind this only works with single layered animators.