Blending Animation Layers

Hi Tom,

You can use the AnimationMixer component's startWithCallback function to trigger 2 different animations in sequence.

Here's an example of a script you can add to your project that will play a single "action" animation followed by a looping "idle" animation. Give it a shot and let me know if you have any specific questions about this approach.

//@input Component.AnimationMixer animationMixer
//@input string actionAnimName
//@input string idleAnimName
//@input int actionLoopCount = 1

if(script.animationMixer){
 if(script.actionAnimName){
  script.animationMixer.setWeight(script.actionAnimName, 1);
  script.animationMixer.setWeight(script.idleAnimName, 0);
  script.animationMixer.startWithCallback(script.actionAnimName, 0, script.actionLoopCount, onActionAnimComplete);
 }
}

function onActionAnimComplete(){
 if(script.animationMixer){
  if(script.idleAnimName){
      script.animationMixer.setWeight(script.actionAnimName, 0);
      script.animationMixer.setWeight(script.idleAnimName, 1);
      script.animationMixer.start(script.idleAnimName, 0, -1);
  }
 }
}

Let me know if you have any specific questions about how to set this up.

Best,
Peter

Hey Naomi!

Here's a version of the script that uses a wrapper function as the callback, which allows you to supply additional parameters to the anim callback:

//@input Component.AnimationMixer mixer

var layerName = "BaseLayer"

script.mixer.startWithCallback("BaseLayer", 0, 1, function(){
onAnimDoneCallback(layerName, script.mixer);
});

function onAnimDoneCallback(layer, mixer){
print("Done playing layer " + layer + " on " + mixer.getSceneObject().name);
}

Let me know if this works for you!

Best,

Peter