How to return to start pose from any pose ( via code ) ?

xraven13

Hi ! 🙂

Hero have a attacking animation that is made from 3 swings, first he swings towards left, then from that position towards right, and then left again. Problem is that player can chose will he make 1, 2 or 3 swings, and when he stops attacking sword and all other parts of the body should return to start pose.

Do I need to have "returning" animation for each swing or I can do it other way ? Reversing animation is not solution because a) player would repeat all swings backwards instead of finding the shortes way , b ) even if player would make only one swing it still wouldn't be good.

Yeah it seems kinda obvious that we will need to have reverse animation for each case, but I still want to be sure. Thanks ! 🙂

Pharan

Custom transition animations for most cases would make it really polished. But you can sometimes cheat it and make one transition-to animation applicable to several from-animations.

Otherwise, Skeleton objects have a SetToSetupPose method (or something similarly named, depending on your runtime. And two more methods that just reset image slots and bones.)
It resets your skeleton to the setup pose. (the pose that's in setup mode in the editor). It's technically not playing an animation so, by default, you won't be able to do any automatic mixing. Therefore, depending on how drastically the pose changes, this may look really jarring.

Your other option might just be to have an idle animation and crossfade/mix into that.