Animation play audio?

I have the same problem. I do not try to play a sound, only to write a message to the console, but the solution should be the same. I chose to make an Animation Event instead, create a function (that in your case would play a sound) and call the function from the Animation Event. Here is the code I am using (Javascript):

 function TellConsole(){ // creates a function.
 print("Works!"); // paste the audio playing code instead.
 }
 TellConsole(); // calls the function every time the Animation Event gets triggered.

1. Add the script to the object with the animation

2. Open the animation window

3. make an "animation Event" by right clicking near the top of the timeline

4 A window will pop up called "Edit Animation Event" with a list of functions to choose from.

Your desired function should be found in this list. Every time the animation plays, the desired function will run. In your case, the audio.Play function that I have been too lazy to write down here ;-)

If you don't want to write an animation event to play every sound, there's another way to do this right in the animation timeline window.

First make sure the audio source is disabled (click the checkbox beside "Audio Source" to toggle it off in the inspector). And also turn on "Play on Awake".

Now, in your timeline you can simply click "Add Curve" and select enabled for the AudioSource and make keyframes where you can toggle the sound on and then off again at the end.

This is an old question but it still comes up in google search and found a pretty good solution. This works if you want an animation object to be able to play multiple sounds, and play them over each other.

1. Add script to object with animation and audio source and include these things in the designated places

   public float soundToPlay = -1.0f; //this with designate which sound to play. -1 means don't play any sound. This is a float because then the animation window can access it. public AudioClip[] audioClip; //this holds the sounds

   AudioSource audio;//for holding the audio source

   void Start () { audio = GetComponent ();//put this in start. This gets the audio source. }

   void Update () { //put the following in update if (soundToPlay > -1.0f) {//if the sound is greater than the value for not playing a sound PlaySound((int) soundToPlay, 1);//play the sound, casting the float to an int so that the audio source can use it soundToPlay = -1.0f;//set it back to zero to keep this from looping back around and playing the sound again. } }

   void PlaySound(int clip, float volumeScale){ audio.PlayOneShot (audioClip [clip], volumeScale);//play the sound with the designated clip and volume scale }

2. Click the object with the script inside it and navigate to the script in the inspector. You should see the Sound To Play and Audio Clip properties. Set the audio clip array size and then drag and drop all the audio clips you want to play into their respective boxes.

1. Go to the animation window.

2. Find the animation you want to add a sound to, or create a new one.

3. Click the Add Property button, expand the script and add the Sound To Play property

4. Position three keyframes one frame apart to set the value of Sound To Play. Make the ones on the edge -1 and the middle one the designated value in the Audio Clip array for the sound you want to play. Be careful when applying the sound to the very first frame of an animation, I have had problems with the sound glitching out when there isn't a buffer frame to set the value to -1.

5. Go into the animation curves and by right clicking set the two end keyframes to audio, and the middle keyframe to broken. Drag the two smoothing handles all the way down.

And now your done.

Just drag the sound to a GameObject, and Enable it when you want the sound to play.