Retrieving the name of the animation currently playing

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I thought this was trivial at start, but after looking and searching, I haven't found a solution. How can you retrieve the name of the animation currently playing on a gameobject? I certainly know of isplaying(), but there's no overload for it, and it only returns a boolean. I think it's unnecessarily expensive to cycle through the animation list to find which one is playing.

So basically i need to get the name of the animation currently playing. Any way to do that?

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Answer by Waz · Aug 07, 2011 at 12:16 PM

You can't, because multiple clips can be playing simultaneously - i.e. there is no current. You can iterate through the animation states, look at the clips and weights, as you're mentioning:

 var bestWeight = -1.0;
 var playing : String;
 for (s : AnimationState in animation) {
     if (s.enabled && s.weight > bestWeight) {
         playing = s.name;
         bestWeight = s.weight;
     }
 }

Alternatively, record the animation you last played when you start/play/queue it.

If you say what you're ultimately trying to achieve by knowing "what is playing" (i.e. what that might mean in your game), there may be other possibilities.

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roamcel · Aug 07, 2011 at 12:41 PM 0

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You've led me to understand that what I need was the 'last played' animation, rather than the heaviest one, so your suggestion to memorize the last animation I play is the perfect solution.

Thanks for the explanation, the example, and the solution :)

thesfid · Jan 24, 2014 at 03:43 PM 0

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This is just what I needed. I'm going to need to affect the speed of animations without necessarily knowing what the names of them will be, and the animation utility only works for debugging. +1 from me!

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Answer by Frescosteve · Jan 16, 2017 at 08:05 AM

I know that this post is relatively old now... For anyone else looking over this:

What you should do is assign an integer value parameter to track the current state. Then you can check against the variable to determine which state it is in. AnimationState = 0 (Idle) AnimationState = 1 (Walking) etc...

animator = GetComponent(Animator); int isPlayingWalking = animator.GetInteger("AnimationState");

So if your animation is within a certain state, whether there are multiple animations or not, you can determine whether it is playing by your parameter.

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Answer by alok-kr-029 · Nov 17, 2014 at 12:12 PM

print (this.transform.parent.gameObject.animation.clip.name);

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taxvi · Sep 17, 2015 at 02:49 PM 0

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This answer is wrong. This code will always return the default animation clip ins$$anonymous$$d of the one that is playing.

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Answer by LawyerOfGod · Feb 28, 2015 at 02:43 AM

I Dont understand why everyone says that you cannot get the name.. here is an example or maybe i was missunderstood the problem ?

http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Animation-clip.html

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scplayer1 · Mar 10, 2016 at 02:17 AM 0

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This only returns the default

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Answer by Ali-Nagori · Aug 14, 2013 at 11:50 PM

that is one way to achieve it if you are using one animation per state method

 public string GetCurrentPlayingAnimationClip
 {
     get
      {
 
         foreach(AnimationState anim in animation)
         {
        if(animation.IsPlaying(anim.name))
            {
               return anim.name;
            }
         {
       
         return string.Empty ;
    }
 }


 void Update()
 {
       print( "Now Playing : " + GetCurrentPlayingAnimationClip );
  
 }

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