Force Mecanim animation to play over others - best way?

kici

I am brain storming this one and would really appreciate some help on what the best way may be.

The scenario is I have the character that goes onto ice and its gliding, at this point I want the character still capable of controlling (plus the glide force), however I don't want the run/walk animations instead, I'd like to play a different animation until it has stopped gliding.

I was thinking perhaps add a Trigger or Bool for Mecanim itself, when called it goes onto that animation until false?

Is this the best approach, or any other possible solutions?

Thank you

ChrisIceBox

Yes, I'd say a Bool would be best.  You can move the Walk/Run/Idle animations into a Blend Tree on your Base layer, so you'd effectively just be using a Bool to transition between two such Blend Trees.

kici

Thank you