c# How to delay code for animator animation to finish

[Blankdud]

I have been stuck for a few days, and my searches through google and here haven’t returned what I was looking for. Here is my situation:

When the player hits the “1” key, the hero character will perform an attack. I set a bool to make sure the attack can’t be repeated in the time window. I set a trigger for the animation to occur, and it does, that all works fine. My issue is that I have no idea how to wait for this animation to finish.

I’ve tried (horribly) to use Coroutines, but when I try something to use the animator.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo(0).normalized time for a delay, I run into the issue that the animation I want to delay by hasn’t started playing yet, because its on the same frame. I feel like it maybe a problem with how my code is structured.

If anyone could point me in the right direction, I would really appreciate the assistance.

The code:

    void Update()
    {
         HandlePlayerInput();
    }

    private void HandlePlayerInput()
    {
        if (isPerformingAction == false)
        {
            if (Input.GetKeyDown("1"))
            {
                Attack();
            }
        }
    }

    private void Attack()
    {
        isPerformingAction = true;
        PerformAttack();

        if (FoesAreDefeated())
        {
              BattleWon();
        }

        EndCharacterTurn();
    }

    private void PerformBasicAction()
    {    
       CurrentHero.animator.SetTrigger("Attack");

       **//DELAY HERE USING COROUTINE?**

       CalculateDamage();
    }

[BaldBeardedMonk]

Okay so here are the steps.

1. Create a function in any of the script which is attached to the gameobject which has the animation.

2. Open Window-> Animation and find the animation from the drop down. it will have keyframes. At the end Right click → Add animation event . select the function you need to call. (remembers its inside Animation and not Animator

3. For this to work, the animation should not be read only. if it is read-only. duplicate it using Ctrl+D and replace the original animation in the Animator with the duplicated animation. (This will allow you to edit and add an event in the keyframe)

[SrGonzalez]

maybe you are interested in delay a certain type of seconds befor executing a command?
here you have a vit of code:

void Update() 
{
   StartCoroutine(Warning());
}
IEnumerator Warning()
{
    yield return new WaitForSeconds(2);     //anything after this line is going to be called after 2 seconds
    //here goes your code
}