Unity Animator - bool transitions keep re-entering state while true

Question

My StateMachine is triggered in a loop as long as transition boolean is true.

I have made sure my code only runs once, where I set the animation bool:

animator.SetBool("talk", true);

This does trigger the transition but the problem is that it re-triggers every frame as long as the bool is true. I had the same issue with a normal state earlier, but there I could turn off "Can transition to self" which solved it. However a StateMachine does not have that option.

I want the animation to play until the bool is set back to false, so using a trigger would not be good here.

EDIT: For some reason it seems the "Transition duration" is the one resetting my animation. So if I change that to 3, it re-enters every 3 seconds, and so on. This seems really weird?

How do I just make sure that the animation plays until its done, then it re-enters (to choose another random talking animation from my StateMachine), as long as talk == true?

Answer 1

In many cases, like working with a network game, you don't have the option of using trigger as it malfunctions over the network, so to solve this issue and continue using bool parameters, you just click on the transition, expand the Settings in the inspector and uncheck "Can Transition To Self".