Reverse animation in PlayAnimatorClip

[sugoidev]

Today I needed to play an animation clip reversed to undo an effect and noticed that the PlayAnimatorClip clip didn’t have such functionality.
So I did a quick implementation.

Would be great if you could consider adding it in a future update.

In the PlayAnimatorClip class, I added a field

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[SerializeField] [HelpBox("Set to make the animation clip play in the reverse direction.")] private bool _playReverse;

Then, on the OnUpdate method, I did the following change

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protected override void OnUpdate(float time, float previousTime){   if (track.useRootMotion && steerLocalRotation != default(Vector2)){ var rot = wasRotation + (Vector3)steerLocalRotation; actor.transform.SetLocalEulerAngles(rot); }   <strong> var scaledTime = (time - clipOffset) * playbackSpeed; var scaledPreviousTime = (previousTime - clipOffset) * playbackSpeed; if (_playReverse) { scaledTime = animationClip.length - scaledTime; scaledPreviousTime = animationClip.length - scaledPreviousTime; }   track.UpdateClip(this, scaledTime, scaledPreviousTime, GetClipWeight(time) );</strong> }

All the best!

[sugoidev]

I also needed this feature and did a pretty much identical implementation.
Would be nice to have it included officially, this is very useful.

Searching around the net, I can see people requesting a way to do this for a long time. It’s still not possible to have it with the latest Unity timeline. Having access to the source and being able to change it quickly is fundamental.

[Gavalakis]

Hey,

Thanks for the heads up.
An easier way, would be to simply allow a negative playback speed by changing the Range attribute to something like [Range(-5, 5] 😀 (which is something I just did by the way).

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