[SOLVED] Getting the current animation of an entity?

Leonidas · October 25, 2020, 8:06am

Indeed there isn’t a method or property exposed for that in the animation component. Of course if you’ve started playing the animation in code you could keep the animation name in a variable of yours.

Otherwise looking at the engine source code there is a property not exposed as a public API that can be of help:

// gets the name of the current animation playing
entity.animation.data.currAnim;

github.com

playcanvas/engine/blob/master/src/framework/components/animation/component.js#L77


data.prevAnim = data.currAnim;

data.currAnim = name;



if (data.model) {



    if (!data.skeleton && !data.animEvaluator) {

        this._createAnimationController();

    }



    var prevAnim = data.animations[data.prevAnim];

    var currAnim = data.animations[data.currAnim];



    data.blending = blendTime > 0 && data.prevAnim;

    if (data.blending) {

        data.blend = 0;

        data.blendSpeed = 1.0 / blendTime;

    }



    if (data.skeleton) {

        if (data.blending) {

            // Blend from the current time of the current animation to the start of