Control animator animation with UI Slider

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Hey guys, so I know there are quite some topics like mine, but none worked for me:

I have the camera animated and I want to be able to use the slider to change where I was in the animation. The idea is that I can go through my animation like a video on youtube. I managed to control the animation with my slider, but the animation only runs as long as I move the slider. Means: Its not starting like a video, but just stands still until I move my slider with the hand.

Anyway, here is my code:

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class AnimControllSlider : MonoBehaviour
{

private Animator anim;
public Slider slider;   //Assign the UI slider of your scene in this slot 

// Use this for initialization
void Start()
{
    anim = GetComponent<Animator>();
    anim.speed = 0;
}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
    anim.Play("TestAnim", -1, slider.normalizedValue);
}

}

Changing the anim.speed to for example 1 or so doesnt do the trick.

Thanks in advance!

2

Got it!

private Animator anim;
public Slider slider;   //Assign the UI slider of your scene in this slot 

Animator m_Animator;
string m_ClipName;
AnimatorClipInfo[] m_CurrentClipInfo;

float m_CurrentClipLength;

float timer;

// Use this for initialization
void Start()
{
    anim = GetComponent<Animator>();    

    //Get them_Animator, which you attach to the GameObject you intend to animate.
    m_Animator = gameObject.GetComponent<Animator>();
    //Fetch the current Animation clip information for the base layer
    m_CurrentClipInfo = this.m_Animator.GetCurrentAnimatorClipInfo(0);
    //Access the current length of the clip
    m_CurrentClipLength = m_CurrentClipInfo[0].clip.length;
    //Access the Animation clip name
    m_ClipName = m_CurrentClipInfo[0].clip.name;
    print(m_CurrentClipLength);

    timer = (1 / m_CurrentClipLength)/60;
}

Sliders are moving between 0 and 1, thats why I used 1. Then we need the length of the clip and then be devided by 60[because of 1 update per second for Update() ] and thats it. I now have something like a youtube-timeline

// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
    anim.Play("NameOfAnimation", 0, slider.normalizedValue);
    slider.normalizedValue += timer;
}

And this calculated it for every frame.