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• ChrisIceBox

  March 2020

  Welcome to the community, @MidMagic.

  AFAIK, Unity's Animator system unfortunately doesn't make it too viable to actually play a specific "frame" of an animation - it's best to stick to Unity's best practices regarding animation playback.

  By this, I mean each phoneme would be a separate animation clip - and then you can switch between each clip using a Blend Tree mapped to the Phoneme integer.

  Otherwise, you'd have to look into some custom scripting to basically force-set a specific sprite in LateUpdate - overriding the effects of the animator. Something like:

  public AC.Char myCharacter;
  public SpriteRenderer spriteRenderer;
  public Sprite[] mouthSprites; // Assign as many sprites as you have phonemes
  
  void LateUpdate ()
  {
      int currentFrame = myCharacter.GetLipSyncFrame ();
      if (currentFrame > 0)
      {
          spriteRenderer.sprite = mouthSprites[currentFrame - 1];
      }
  }
  
• MidMagic

  March 2020

  Thank you so much Chris!