classes/class_animationnodestatemachineplayback

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classes/class_animationnodestatemachineplayback

Inherits: Resource< RefCounted< Object Provides playback control for an AnimationNodeStateMachine. Description: Allows control of AnimationTree state machines created with AnimationNodeStateMachine...

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_animationnodestatemachineplayback.html

[RobertHDPotatoes]

Heads up for anyone else who is struggling with the functionality of the methods in this documentation, the documentation is very bare-bones and some of the methods in here do not function as one would expect from their description/name. I had to search through discord and other threads to find out other people are having the same issues.

[Calinou]

Can you link to some threads?

[RobertHDPotatoes]

Sorry if I didn't make it clear, but I didn't find any answers in those discussions, only frustrations similar to my experience, so sorry if you were looking for answers! I'm not 100% convinced the issues I'm having are a Godot problem (because I'm a noob, only started programming this year haha) but there were conversations in the discord that I found that talked about how the stop() function didn't work as they would expect, and for me personally I found that the next() function doesn't work like I'd expect when it's called on a dynamically loaded statemachine inside of a BlendTree. Using get_travel_path() shows an empty array, which makes sense why next() would not work in that case... But despite the editor saying there are no travel paths, there very clearly are. So, to manually go to the next animation, when I can't know the name of the next animation in advance (so can't use travel) I had to make a work around of using the conditions property to advance my animations manually when called.
If I happen upon those discussions again sometime, I will link them as a reply.