animation when a button is pressed

[anon_18902224]

hiya.

i’m pretty new at Unity and i have this thing that i just couldn’t figure out myself: how do you script a button, so that when it’s pressed, it’ll show an (pre-made) animation? (so if you press ‘forward’ a walking animation starts and when you release the button, the animation’ll stop playing) and is it possible to script this inside of the FPSwalker script?

thanks,

• NgInE

[Joachim_Ante_1]

Do you mean a gui button or a button on the keyboard?

[anon_18902224]

@Joachim Ante

Do you mean a gui button or a button on the keyboard?

a button on the keyboard.

[anon_18902224]

can anyone tell me please?

[Joachim_Ante_1]

function Update ()
{
 if (Input.GetKey ("up"))
 {
     if (!animation.isPlaying)
       animation.Play();
 }
 else
 {
       animation.Stop();
 }
}

On The Edge

[anon_18902224]

a wow, thank you!

[anon_18902224]

@Joachim Ante

function Update ()
{
 if (Input.GetKey ("up"))
 {
     if (!animation.isPlaying)
       animation.Play();
 }
 else
 {
       animation.Stop();
 }
}

oh, and should i use this one in the FPS script? (sorry for all the dumb questions, but i’m a noob when i comes to scripting.)

[anon_49671346]

The script is applied to the object it’s attached to - and the fps script is attached to a capsule which you can’t see. If you want that capsule to be animated, go ahead

I’d recommend putting it all in a separate script and applying that script to the object you want animated.

[anon_18902224]

@""

The script is applied to the object it’s attached to - and the fps script is attached to a capsule which you can’t see. If you want that capsule to be animated, go ahead

I’d recommend putting it all in a separate script and applying that script to the object you want animated.

thanks it works great is it also possible that, when you press ‘down’, and thus the character moves backwards, the animation also plays in reverse?