How can I change a mecanim animation by pressing a key?

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1

Hi!

I have a character with 2 animations. One is just an idle that will loop forever until I press the spacebar (I changed the tag to ‘Activate’). From there it will transition into a series of other animations.

I have set this up in the Animator window and I made a boolean parameter called ‘hitSpace’ to be used in a script.

This is the control script I wrote. I hooked it up to the character but it does nothing!
It doesn’t give any errors but it also doesn’t show anything in the console when I press space (maybe it doesn’t usually do that anyway?).

Can anyone help me?

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class Alien_Behaviour : MonoBehaviour {

	// Use this for initialization
	private Animator anim;
	private bool hitSpace;

	void Start () 
	{
		anim = GetComponent<Animator>();
		hitSpace = false;
	}
	
	// Update is called once per frame
	void Update () 
	{
		if(Input.GetButtonDown("Activate"))
		{
			hitSpace = true;
			anim.SetBool("hitSpace", hitSpace);
		}
		else
		{
			hitSpace = false;
			anim.SetBool("hitSpace", hitSpace);
		}

	
	}
}
2

I’ll copy the solution to my problem in this answer box if it can be of help to someone:

I found out the code was working after all, but I was testing it from the scene viewport instead of the ingame view, and I guess it doesn’t read the keyboard input then! How silly of me!