Reset model/skeleton when stopping/switching animation

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Hi guys,

I’d like to stop the currently playing animation. When I do it via disabling the animation component this.entity.animation.enabled = false, the model graph is not reset to its original state, e.g model just ‘stops’ on the current animation frame and thus may be rotated/scaled/positioned depending on the animation played before. Same time, all the entity’s public properties (getRotation(), getPosition(), getLocalScale()) stay unchanged, but visually model does look rotated/scaled/moved.

Is there a way to reset the model graph (position/rotation/scale properties) when stopping entity animation?

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Hi @Igor,

I haven’t tried it myself, but I think setting the current time to 0, before or after stopping it will do the trick:

this.entity.animation.currentTime = 0;

https://developer.playcanvas.com/en/api/pc.AnimationComponent.html#currentTime

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@Leonidas thanks for the answer. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work.

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Maybe then the API is missing some straightforward way of doing this.

Would you like to submit an issue about it in the engine repo?

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Sure, gonna submit it soon.

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Any update to this? having a similar problem

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You will need to add an ‘pose’ anim and state to change to when you want to reset the model