Drag and Drop animation creates an "Animator" component not "Animation" ?

[Nanako]

Hi all. See this tutorial video, starting from 9.03

Stealth game tutorial - 107 - CCTV Cameras - Unity Official Tutorials

He creates an animation asset, selects the cctv cam joint, and then drags and drops it onto the component panel. It creates an Animation component, and it populates the animation window with some values in the left column

However when i do these exact same steps, the result is different. It gives me an “Animator” component instead, with the camera joint set as the Controller, and the Avatar field empty. It also does not populate the animation window with anything.

I’ve gone over this several times, and i am completely certain i’m not misclicking. Doing exactly what is shown.

Any idea what’s going on ?

[Nanako]

bump! Still having issues i kind of took the weekend off.

[Nanako]

I’m poking around with the animator window, trying to work around this issue for myself. I’ve noticed an error has come up at the bottom:

What does this mean, exactly. Why must it be marked as legacy, and how is that done ?

[Nanako]

And also, i couldn’t find the Wrap Mode at the bottom of the animator window, as the video shows. But i found it in the inspector properties of the animation asset instead. However setting it to Ping Pong doesn’t seem to work, it still just loops in the default manner.

[Nanako]

anyone? i’m hitting my head against a wall here ;-;

[guavaman]

There’s a comment from Greg Brown on the YouTube page that might prove helpful to you.

[Nanako]

@guavaman

There’s a comment from Greg Brown on the YouTube page that might prove helpful to you.

wow. This looks really overcomplicated and buggy. I’ve already tried the thing with setting the inspector panel to debug and setting animtype to 1, but it was already at 1.

I get the impression something is very, very wrong here. I shouldn’t be doing this. Isn’t there a better way? How does the “animator” component work ?

I’d rather learn and adapt to doing things the right way now, than be part of the problem of forcing them to support legacy methods (which are presumably less efficient/flexible ?)

[guavaman]

I don’t see anything in his comment talking about setting the inspector to Debug mode.

For anyone struggling with the animations in Unity 4.5 here is an easy way to do it (avoiding the legacy problem):

Before you create the CCTVSweep animation file, open up the animation window under the window tab (not the animator window). With the camJoint child object selected, click add Curve in the animation window. Navigate to the animations folder and save your file there as CCTVSweep. (I don’t know why that would make a difference but it stopped the legacy warning coming up for me.)

You can click add Curve again and select Transform > Rotation. This will give you an animation clip. You can expand its properties using the drop down arrow to the left of the clip and its rotation.y you want to be working with. You can pretty much follow the tutorial from there. (I made a 16s clip, with keyframes (time,rot.y): (0,60), (8,0) and (16,60) to create the panning.)

Also for people complaining about not having the ping pong feature you can simulate the smooth motion by going into the curves tab, and right clicking on the start and end key frames and selecting “free smooth”. You can grab the key frame and fashion the curve into a cosine wave. (y)

I’m not that familiar with the Mechanim way of working as I mainly use the legacy system still. This comment seemed to be addressing your specific problem in that tutorial. If you want to learn about Mechanim and the components, there seems to be plenty of documentation on the topic:

http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/MecanimAnimationSystem.html

Unity - Manual: Animator component