How can i animate a camera that is not Main Camera ?

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I have in the Hierarchy two cameras. One the Main Camera that is a child under ThirdPersonController.
And another camera i called it Camera that is not child at all.

If i add animator component to the Main Camera it will not play the animation file only if i move the Main Camera to the top or bottom of the Hierarchy so it will not be a child of any object. For some reason when the Main Camera is child of the ThirdPersonController it’s not showing the animation clip in the game view when running the game. It does playing the animation in the Animator window but it’s not showing it in the game view.

That’s why i added a new Camera: GameObject > Camera
Then added to this camera Animator component.
The problem is when i click in the Inspector of this camera on: Controller i see in the list: Main Camera , Main Camera, Main Camera 1…but i don’t see Camera. And i want to make the new Camera as the Controller.


You can see on the small window on the top left: Select RuntimeAnimatorController that the Camera i added to the Hierarchy is not in the list.

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Found how to do it.

Added new Camera to the Hierarchy and renamed it to: AnimationCamera.
Then in the Assets right click: Create > Animator Controller. Renamed the new Animator Controller to: AnimationCamera.
The dragged the new Controller to the new camera. Now in the new camera there is Animator component with the AnimationCamera Controller.

Then i added to the new camera attached this script:

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

public class AnimationCamera : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Camera animationCamera;
    public Camera mainCamera;

    private void Start()
    {
        animationCamera.enabled = false;
        mainCamera.enabled = true;
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.C))
        {
            animationCamera.enabled = !animationCamera.enabled;
            mainCamera.enabled = !mainCamera.enabled;
        }
    }
}

Now when i click on the key C i switch between the Main Camera and the AnimationCamera.