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How do I trigger another game object’s animation/animator?
This is the reference for the other object that I want to trigger. The script below is attached to the main object, and should trigger the other object’s animation. But I keep getting console log message (Animator is not playing an AnimatorController)

public class TriggerScript : MonoBehaviour {
public GameObject otherObject;
Animator anim;

private void Start()
{
anim = otherObject.GetComponent();
}

private void OnMouseDown()
{
anim.SetTrigger(“Active”);
}
}

“Active”, is the name/string of the trigger from the animator of the other game object. On the inspector tab in unity, I drag and drop the other game object in the public variable. Please help

2

Is the Animator active and enabled at the time of execution?

More specifically, are you calling this on a prefab instead of a GameObject in the scene?

3

Based on the error message it’s almost certainly this.

if you have dragged the prefab into this slot you need to first Instantiate() that prefab and keep a reference to the GameObject returned from Instantiate and use that for your otherObject

In other news, I highly recommend using meaningful names, such as:

[Header( "Fill this in with the player prefab")]
public GameObject PlayerPrefab;

// assign the Instantiate-d player to this and only use this for everything at runtime
private GameObject InstantiatedPlayer;

Always seek to reduce confusion. If you use the word Object you are asking for confusion.

4

Thank you for the reply. Yes it is a prefab.

5

You can’t do operations like this on Prefabs, it needs to be instantiated first.

6

Thankyou for the reply. Forgive my errors, I will take that on board.

7

Instantiate first, then call the animation. Thankyou again.

8

Make sure to call the animation on the newly Instantiated object :wink: