Running an animation completely before transitioning back (Mecanim)

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Basically I want to run an animation once when I press a key. And no matter how long the key is pressed I want to run it once completely and then transition automatically back to idle state.

I really have tried to find a solution regarding to this, because there are many similiar questions on the web, but I couldn’t find anything that explains this in detail, because I’m completely new to Unity.

		if (Input.GetKeyDown (KeyCode.E)) {
			anim.SetBool ("Kicking", true);
		}

		if(anim.IsInTransition(0) && anim.GetNextAnimatorStateInfo(0).nameHash == kickStateHash){
			anim.SetBool("Kicking", false);
		}

This is basically the code, the problem is that when I press ‘E’ it doesn’t run ‘Kick’ all the way through but cuts it in the middle. I know why it’s doing this, but don’t know how to fix it.

I also tried this:

    if (Input.GetKeyDown (KeyCode.E)) {
		anim.SetBool ("Kicking", true);
	}

	if (anim.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo(0).nameHash == kickStateHash) {
	} else {
		anim.SetBool ("Kicking", false);}

But it doesn’t work at all. (I don’t get any errors but the animation isn’t -visibly- playing)

I also tried with a Trigger instead of a Bool, but then again the animation only plays halfway and then transitions back to Idle.

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  1. make sure you turn looping off for the kicking animation

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  1. for the transition from Kick animation to Idle (or whatever you want it to go back to), make sure you set both ExitTime to 1 and Kicking to false.

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This will ensure that the animation will run once, and only once, then return to the Idle animation only when Kicking is false and the animation has completed in full.

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Sorry guys, it seems I’m really stupid. I have the solution now. In case anyone is looking for this as well: Instead of making it complicated and trying to set a bool to false to transition back into idle, simply use exit time in the animator -.-