Animation-not playing

Unity Engine
1

Using JavaScript:
My update function moves the character how I want, and within the if statement, I add animation.CrossFade(“animation”); but nothing plays. I then made the animations a separation function and called it from within Update, and no animation plays. Any help on animation beyond calling the animation from script would be helpful.

2

I’m getting this error:
there is no ‘Animation’ attached to the “First Person Controller” game object, but a script is trying to access it

3

Well first off, function Update() plays EVERY frame.

So you are telling the animation to play ever frame. That might be your problem.

4

okay, so separate function? based on tutorials I’ve seen, everything else seems fine…. but there is not animation

5

Well lets say you wanted to play it when you press “w”.

function Update () {
if (Input.GetKeyDown(“w”)) {
PlayAnimation();
}
}

function PlayAnimation () {
Animation.Play(“walking”); (or whatever you want to do with your animations)
}

However, it might not be a problem with your script at all, I would double check everything in your inspector as well, just in case.

6

I just tried the scripting like that, and it doesn’t work, I get the same error.
What should I be doing/checking in the inspector?

7

Ok, here is my EXACT error:
I keep getting this error when trying to script the animation:

MissingComponentException: There is no ‘Animation’ attached to the “First Person Controller” game object, but a script is trying to access it.
You probably need to add a Animation to the game object “First Person Controller”. Or your script needs to check if the component is attached before using it.
UnityEngine.Animation.CrossFade (System.String animation)
CubeManScript.walkAnimation () (at Assets/Standard Assets/Character Controllers/Sources/Scripts/CubeManScript.js:69)
CubeManScript.Update () (at Assets/Standard Assets/Character Controllers/Sources/Scripts/CubeManScript.js:39)

help?

8

and my walk animation function is this:

functionwalkAnimation(){
animation.CrossFade(“WalkBackwards_001”);
}

don’t worry about the fact it’s backwards, I just had them switched, it doesn’t matter

9

and again there is a space between function and walk, clipboard didn’t copy it, don’t know why

10

now I have set up the animation window, I dragged the animation into it, and set it as a transition from “any”. the animation now plays once every time I hit the play button in game view, but that’s not really what I want it to do, and the animation does not play when I press the button for the animation to play… some sort of progress but no solution

11

4 Errors:
1)
The AnimationClip ‘WalkBackwards_001’ used by the Animation component ‘First Person Controller’ must be marked as Legacy.

Default clip could not be found in attached animations list.

NullReferenceException: GetRef
CubeManScript.Start () (at Assets/Standard Assets/Character Controllers/Sources/Scripts/CubeManScript.js:13)

MissingComponentException: There is no ‘CharacterController’ attached to the “CubeMan” game object, but a script is trying to access it.
You probably need to add a CharacterController to the game object “CubeMan”. Or your script needs to check if the component is attached before using it.
CubeManScript.Update () (at Assets/Standard Assets/Character Controllers/Sources/Scripts/CubeManScript.js:20)

12

I had the same problem. Just switch from the Legacy animation system to Mechanim system and everything should work.
http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/MecanimAnimationSystem.html

13

How do you switch to Mecanim?
The Legacy system allows control of angles though, I might want that…

14

I added animate to Legacy, since Mecanim was not a listed choice. However, my animations are still not playing in game, and I keep getting the error:
MissingComponentException: There is no ‘CharacterController’ attached to the “CubeMan” game object, but a script is trying to access it.
You probably need to add a CharacterController to the game object “CubeMan”. Or your script needs to check if the component is attached before using it.
CubeManScript.Update () (at Assets/Standard Assets/Character Controllers/Sources/Scripts/CubeManScript.js:29)

15

Lets if u wonna play a anim after fire1 key pressed, this is how it gonna be.

var anim : AnimationClip;

function update (){
if(Input.GetButtonDown(“Fire1”)){
animation.clip = anim;
animation.play();
}
}

16

I’ll try that. Thank you very much for the response.
Quick question. Has : animation.Play(“blah”) been deprecated or something? because I have been trying that and animation.CrossFade(“blah”)
?