koobas.hobune.stream
Play a simple animation once on key press
I'm experimenting with controlling a little robot player that has an animation to make himself get taller (kind of like a jumping motion). I have saved the animation and it works find when the Animator component loops it through continuously. I would like to instead play this short animation once, until it finishes, on (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.UpArrow)) - is this possible? PS Javascript would be ideal as I'm a beginner :) Thanks!
Yes, it is, something like this should do:
animation["YourAnimation"].wrapMode = WrapMode.Once;
...
void Update()
{
if ( Input.GetKey(KeyCode.UpArrow) )
{
StartCoroutine(PlayAnimation());
}
}
...
IEnumerator PlayAnimation()
{
animation.CrossFade("YourAnimation");
animation.Play("YourAnimation");
yield WaitForSeconds (animation["YourAnimation"].length);
}
This looks like what I'm looking for! Just one thing, I tried this and received this error: 'System.Collections.IEnumerator' is not a valid macro. What might I be missing? Also, when referencing the animation itself, am I putting the name of the animation itself, the animation state, or it's tag? Thanks :)
At what line does that happen? It's probably a typo/missing bracket. You reference the animation by animation name.
Check if you are returning any value in the IEnumerator.
Add a flag, so on keypress change isPlaying = true; so that other times you press up it won't reset the animation.
When the animation file is clicked, there's an option to uncheck the 'Loop Time' in the Inspector window. That will do it, I think.
