Is there a way to sort the animation dropdown list?
It currently seems to be done using “date added” with the oldest at the top, but I’d really like it to be alphabetic.
Sounds like a feature request. 
Are you still doing 2D character animations?
I wanted to inquire about the animations you were having issues with - Animation panel causing slowdowns when the animations were quite long, as I recall.
Definitely a feature request :)… I was hoping there was a way to “hack” around it by editing the animation window’s save state or using reflection to force a sorting of this guy through an editor add on.
Yes, still doing 2d character animation, in unity, using a 2d rig approach. Example of work here…
“I wanted to inquire about the animations you were having issues with - Animation panel causing slowdowns when the animations were quite long, as I recall.”
Seems like something for a different thread :), PM me here or message me on Twitter.
Cheers.
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No bother if it is solved now. I think it seemed to be a version issue back in the middle 5x versions.
Glad you are still on track - and by the way - can’t wait to play that AWESOME looking game!! 
Gotchya on twitter - will follow.
Bit of a bump here… formerly (before 5.6/2017), I could use an editor script to reorder the list of animations in an Animation component (not Mecanim Animator). Then, in the drop-down list in the animation window (shown out-of-order in the original post), the list of animations would reflect the order in the component. Thus, I could order them alphabetically in the component list, and see them alphabetically in the drop-down.
However, currently on 2017 (2017.1.0f3), I can reorder the component alphabetically, but the drop-down seems completely arbitrary. This does indeed make the drop-down difficult to navigate when we have GameObjects with many animation clips attached (200+ in some cases).
Is that a known regression, a will-not-fix, or otherwise?
Hi guys,
Yes this is a know issue, we just fixed it in 2017.3 so it should be backported pretty soon to 2017.2 2017.1
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Most excellent! Thanks a ton!
what if I cant upgrade to 2017, any way I can do this via script in 5.6 please ?
for those of you stuck with this before 2017, you can still re-order the list via script… in an editor script like this…
Select the gameobject with the animator in Hierarchy, then run your editor script… startign off with something like this…
var selected = Selection.GetFiltered<GameObject>(SelectionMode.Editable).First();
var animator = selected.GetComponent<Animator>();
var controller = AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath<AnimatorController>(AssetDatabase.GetAssetPath(animator.runtimeAnimatorController));
Once you have the controller you can dig down into the Statemachine hierarchy until you find arrays with motions, then sort by motion name.
Still nothing?
Would be even better to have a search filter at least to select an animation clip on an animator with hundreds of clips, I hate the dropdown so much these days because of that. Been wanting this for years now.
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