Mixing Upperbody layer and Base/Full body layer animations

[justsomedev]

Hello everyone! I'm having issues mixing animations in the animator. I'm trying to mix the upper body pose of unsheathed weapons with the swimming animations. I have achieved mixing the two but the issue now is that I'm trying to end the upper body animation when the character attacks or interacts underwater. For now I'm working with attacks underwater and I believe the issue is that the transition from the "Underwater Armed Anim" state to the exit state is being played at the same time the transitions from Swimming states to the "Underwater Attacks" state are being played. I've been stuck on this for a while now and I tried almost everything youtube, force playing animations using "crossfade" and now I'm trying to adjust bool values with parameters within the vSwimming script. So far nothing seems to work. I know unity has the ability to mix animations since the template is able to hold the block, reload and aiming animations in the upperbody layer while using locomotive animations in the base layer. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advanced.

[justsomedev]

Update: I've tried using various methods in the script, CrossFade(), CrossFadeInFixedTime(), Rebind(), Stop(), PlayInFixedTime() and setting the parameters of the transitions to true or false in the code. Nothing seems to work, essentially all I'm trying to do now is force exit/stop the Upperbody layer animation state that is playing to play the desired Base layer animation state as shown in the screen shots. 

Specifically:
Underwater Armed Anim (UpperBody Layer) -> Underwater Attacks (Base Layer)

*Underwater Armed Anim state is in the Upperbody layer and the Underwater Attacks is in the Base layer.

[justsomedev]

Update: I found the issue. The issue is with the transition durations and exit times of the animation states. When configured right and timed properly it will execute the animations the way I want them to. 

[justsomedev]

Update: I solved the issue, took some time trouble shooting.