Get current playing animation from AnimationTree

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Get current playing animation from AnimationTree

jfirestorm44

I am trying to return the current playing animation from my AnimationTree but have not been able to figure out a way to make that happen. I thought I would be able to use current_animation on the AnimationPlayer but that attempt fails because the AnimationTree doesn't seem to change the current_animation property of the AnimationPlayer when it switches between animation nodes.

This line always returns true:
print($AnimationPlayer.current_animation == "")

This line always returns false:
print($AnimationPlayer.current_animation == "idle")

Since current_animation isn't a property of AnimationTree I can't use it on the tree itself. I've also tried active and is_playing but they don't account for a specific AnimationTree node that is playing. I've attempted a few other things also but no luck.

Any work around or help on how I can get the current playing animation node from the AnimationTree would be great. Thanks.

Megalomaniak

You might have to familiarize yourself with the actual AnimationNodes that would exist within the AnimationTree:
https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_animationnode.html

That is the class that the others inherit from. Take heed this is a pretty deep rabbit hole.

jfirestorm44

Megalomaniak Thanks but that didn't give me what I needed. I did get something out of it though.

I did however find an answer. Using AnimationNodeStateMachinePlayback API. It has a get_current_node() method that returned the current running animation. That allowed me to do if state_machine.get_current_node() != "attack":

[https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_animationnodestatemachineplayback.html?highlight=get_Current_node#methods]