Animation Play On Click

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Hey all. I'm trying to script a function in which an animation plays on click of a gameobject. However, instead of naming the animation in the parenthesis, I want to be able to declare it as a variable, so I can use the script for multiple gameobjects so I don't have many scripts for different animations. However, I'm getting an error. Any help?

Error: Assets/Scripting/Click to move.js(7,17): BCE0004: Ambiguous reference 'animation': Click to move.animation, UnityEngine.Component.animation.

 var animation : Animation;
 
 function Update() {
     if(Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
     {
         animation = AnimationClip;
         animation.Play();
     }
 }

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Answer by Sarthak123 · Oct 19, 2014 at 02:40 PM

actually, you have to remove the type "Animation" from your animation for it to work, try this,

      var animation : String;
     function Update() {
     if(Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
     {
     animation.Play(animation);
     }
     }

this is because the syntax of animation.play is,

 animation.play(String); //string will be the name of the animation to be played...

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GraviterX · Oct 19, 2014 at 03:40 PM 0

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This is what I edited it to. Not sure if this is what you meant. I'm still getting an error: Assets/Scripting/Click to move.js(5,6): BCE0004: Ambiguous reference 'animation': Click to move.animation, UnityEngine.Component.animation.

   var animation : String;
      function Update() {
      if(Input.Get$$anonymous$$ouseButtonDown(0))
      {
      animation.play(String); //string will be the name of the animation to be played...
      }
      }

Sarthak123 · Oct 20, 2014 at 07:27 AM 0

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@GraviterX no no... write this in your script... String is a data type, like int is a data type for integers, so is String for String values, i.e. values written inside inverted commas like "$$anonymous$$y Animation", "Walk", etc. are String values, so use only this..

 var $$anonymous$$yAnimation : String;
 function Update() {
 if(Input.Get$$anonymous$$ouseButtonDown(0))
 {
 animation.Play($$anonymous$$yAnimation);
 }
 }

Explanation -> we are using $$anonymous$$yAnimation as a string value... so attach this script to your object and then in the inspector, type your animation name inside the box of $$anonymous$$yAnimation, and your script/animation will run..

Hope this works..

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