Enemy not Moving Towards player when animator inside enemy

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1

So im trying to make the enemy to follow the player. But the problem is it doesnt follow if theres an animator in the enemy object.

Enemy script:

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

public class Enemy : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Animator animator;
    public int maxHealth = 100;
    public float speed;

    private Transform target;

    int currentHealth;

    public GameObject ThisEnemy;

    public EnemyHealthBar healthBar;

    private void Start()
    {
        currentHealth = maxHealth;
        healthBar.Sethealth(currentHealth, maxHealth);
        target = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Player").GetComponent<Transform>();
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        transform.position = Vector2.MoveTowards(transform.position, target.position, speed * Time.deltaTime);
    }

    public void TakeDamage(int damage)
    {
        currentHealth -= damage;
        healthBar.Sethealth(currentHealth, maxHealth);

        animator.SetTrigger("Hit");

        if(currentHealth <= 0)
        {
            Die();
        }
    }

    void Die()
    {
        Debug.Log("Enemy is ded");

        animator.SetBool("IsDead", true);

        GetComponent<Collider2D>().enabled = false;
        this.enabled = false;
        Destroy(ThisEnemy);
    }
}

I have an animator that goes from Entry → IdleEnemy and AnyState → Hit(if condition hit is triggered) → Dead enemy(IsDead=true) or Idle enemy(IsDead=false)

2

Hi!

When you put movement and animations on the same object, the animator will usually override any positional data. Try putting the art and any animations onto a child gameobject which will handle visuals, and let the parent handle movement. This way, none of them will override each other.

Hope this helps :slight_smile: