How To Play Clips From Animation Index Unity

Question

I have an created an animation in the editor with multiple clips,

How can I play a specific clip (for instance the second one)?

I know the scripting reference explains how to select it by prune name, but is there a mode to play information technology by index number?

Answer 1

I know this question is old, only I thought I'd share my gear up.

I had fourscore blithe characters all with the same 5 animations, though some of them were named differently because information technology would be the walk cycle for a crawling infant or an old man with a walking stick, therefore different from the walk cycle of my generic humans.

What I did was create a script that just had a variable for animationClips.

                                                  var animList : AnimationClip[];

That'due south it, that's all my script had lol. Then I applied it to the prefabs of all my fourscore chars, and listed their animations in respective order:

bind walk blanch trip the light fantastic suicide

And so in script I merely said

                                                  gameObject.animation.Play(getComponent(AnimList).animList[0]);

basically I couldn't access THEIR array and then I made my own array that I COULD access.

Answer 2

Reply past Jaap Kreijkamp · Nov 24, 2009 at 11:19 PM

I believe yous tin can't, stupid, isn't information technology? You CAN however iterate over the animationclips with the (in C#) foreach keyword:

                        foreach (AnimationClip clip in animation) {     // practise initialisation or something on clip }

Sorry, but this doesnt work?

InvalidCastException: Cannot cast from source type to destination type.

Information technology's AnimationState, not AnimationClip - BerggreenD$$anonymous$$, my answer on your question will exist visible when approved past a moderator.

you need to apply AnimationState not AnimationClip

Thanks, didnt see it before posting my ain. I've upvoted your comment.

Doesn't this implicitly mean that all legacy operations requiring this blazon of iteration are doomed to create garbage?

Answer 3

Kind of simple, simply if it saves someone some time...

                                                  string ClipIndexToName(int alphabetize)  {      AnimationClip clip = GetClipByIndex(index);      if (clip == null)          return null;      return clip.name;  }   AnimationClip GetClipByIndex(int index)  {      int i = 0;      foreach (AnimationState animationState in blitheness)      {          if (i == alphabetize)              render animationState.clip;          i++;      }      return null;  }

Update, since the above seems to have broke with Unity v (or maybe was always frail and now I'm just finding out), I concluded upwards changing GetClipByIndex to this. Also bad I have to difficult-lawmaking the clip names, a petty extra piece of work:

                                                  AnimationClip GetClipByIndex(int index)  {      string[] ClipNames = { "StepForward", "StepBackward", "ShortThrow", "LongThrow", "BackwardThrow", "SoftThrow", "Balderdash", "Hurt" };      Animation blitheness = GetComponent<Blitheness>();      render animation[ClipNames[index]].clip;  }

Answer 4

Not sure if this is how it'due south supposed to piece of work, but this does exactly what your asking.

                                                  using System.Collections;  using System.Collections.Generic;  using UnityEngine;    public form EnemyMovement : MonoBehaviour {        Animation anim;      public List<cord> animNames;        void Start(){                    anim = GetComponent<Blitheness> ();            foreach (AnimationState clip in anim) {              animNames.Add(clip.name.ToString());          }      }        void Update(){            if (//something happens//) {              anim.CrossFade (animNames [1]);             //plays animation in element1 spot          } else {              anim.CrossFade (animNames [0]);             //plays animation in element0 spot          }      }  }