playing and yielding to animations from animation player or animation tree?

[Shadowblitz16]

[imjp94]

State machine is simply for state management, it doesn't handle animation.

Anyway, I don't think you can yield for animation tree, so I would say animation player

[Shadowblitz16]

animation is tied to state though. it makes it so we don't have to attach scripts and switch through all the states just to manage animations.

I was thinking something like a animation node in the chart editor where we could set a animation player and a animation to play or something when a state is active

let me do a moch up real quick

[Shadowblitz16]

I don't know what font the editor uses but the basic idea is that you could assign a animation player to the state machine and have animation finished conditions and animation nodes

EDIT: in fact assigning the animation player through the node would be better that way we can have multiple animation players per state machine

this would be really good for controlling menus

I could do fine without animation tree but I really need animation player because I am using it for menus

[Shadowblitz16]

@imjp94 you there? I have been trying to use godot's animation tree to do state machines but it's completely broken. It won't update states properly and I am really hoping this could be a alternative