Animation Pausing

Unity Engine
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Is there any way to pause and restart an animation?

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Iā€™ll be a little more specific. I have a character that moves on an 8 second loop (a hockey defender). One player controls the ā€˜shooterā€™ and I would like the other character to be able to stop the defenders on their path and then restart them. I understand that I could probably use the waypoint method to come up with something similar to a pause and I will look into that if it is not possible to pause an animation and then continue it from where it was paused.

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With the current animation system you canā€™t pause an animation and continue where it is playing.

The animation system will soon be replaced with a bigger, better, nicer and faster system.

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Thanks for the answer.

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Is this still true? Is there no way to Pause an animation? Iā€™ve figured out how to stop it. But if you start it again, it rewinds.

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Perhaps changing the timescale could help you here? What method did you want to pause/restart it and what needs to happen in the meantime?
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This topic is more than a year old. A new character animation system has been added since then.

You can set the speed of the animation to any value. Setting it to 0 pauses the animation.

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I figured that was probably the case. Itā€™s just that if you type ā€œanimation pauseā€ or anything like that in the documentation, it doesnā€™t point you towards the speed section.

Thanks for steering me in that direction. Did just the trick.

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whats the code to change the speed of the animation?

i made one of my character runing but its too slowā€¦ i placed the keyframes waaay far from eachotherā€¦ so i can fix this by speeding the animation

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Damn, your answer really helps me Lol !!! Thanks a lot