Help with Animations and Prefabs!

Unity Engine
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Hi,

I’m having problems when I try to put an animation inside a prefab that was created in Unity. I have a game object with I added an Animation Component, but when I add it to a prefab… the animation is gone. It is hard for me to believe that this cannot be done!!!

Thanks

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Have you tried…

Drag a prefab into the Hierarchy, creating an instance.
Add the animation.
Drag the instance on top of the original prefab in the project view, replacing it.

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That’s one way to go about this, but not the only way. If you have an animation in your Project view, and add it to a prefab’s animation component, it should not disappear, either. Perhaps some more details would help.

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Hello Jessy,

Sorry it did not worked. This is a detail of what I am doing:

  1. Create a cube.
  2. Add an Animation Component
  3. Set key frames for the cube. (which are stored in the animation component)
  4. Drag to a prefab in the project.

Now… when I drag the prefab back to the hierarchy, the component is still there, but the animation is set to (none), so there is no animation at all.

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Got it. Here’s what to do next time:

Create an animation in the Project view.
Select that animation from the drop-down box in the Animation component of your prefab.
Animate the prefab.

I don’t know if there’s a way to assign a prefab’s animation to the the “Default” animation that you created for the cube, originally. Perhaps somebody else has a non-scripting method for this?

…I just realized that you can choose “Default” from the animation component after you place the prefab into the Hierarchy.

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Excelent! Thank you Jessy! I haven’t used that “Animation” asset until now. I get the idea now…

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In the similar fashion I created a bar chart using prefabs and I am unable to add animation that is I am trying to create a dynamic bar chart like on click of play button the bar charts should Rise to the statistical values from base but I am unable to achieve that. How can I achieve that