How can I make a multiple cloned prefab with animation working?

Unity Engine
1

Dear lovely community,

I’am creating a 2d game and I would like to add a floating damage pop up text every time I click on a certain object. For this I clone a prefab with a text popup animation every time I click on the screen. The prefab is put into the game as intended however the animation isn’t working. When I put only one animation into the screen it works. I don’t simply don’t know why it isn’t working… So how can I clone a prefab with an animation and make it working with other animations of the same prefab already running? This is driving me crazy and some help would awesome!

using UnityEngine;

public class Enemy : MonoBehaviour {
    public int health;
    void Start()
    {
        FloatingTextController.Initialize();
    }

    public virtual void TakeDamage(int amount)
    {
        FloatingTextController.CreateFloatingText(amount.ToString(), transform);
        Debug.LogFormat("{0} was dealt {1} damage", gameObject.name, amount);
        if ((health -= amount) <= 0)
            Die();
    }


    public virtual void Die()
    {
        Debug.Log(gameObject.name + " has died.");
    }

    void OnMouseDown()
    {
        this.TakeDamage(Random.Range(0, 100));
    }

}

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class FloatingText : MonoBehaviour {
    public Animator animator;
    private Text damageText;

    void OnEnable()
    {
        AnimatorClipInfo[] clipInfo = animator.GetCurrentAnimatorClipInfo(0);
        Debug.Log(clipInfo.Length);
        //Destroy(gameObject, clipInfo[0].clip.length);
        damageText = animator.GetComponent<Text>();
    }

    public void SetText(string text)
    {
        damageText.text = text;
    }
}

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class FloatingTextController : MonoBehaviour {
    private static FloatingText popupText;
    private static GameObject canvas;

    public static void Initialize()
    {
        canvas = GameObject.Find("Canvas");
        if (!popupText)
            popupText = Resources.Load<FloatingText>("Prefabs/PopupTextParent");
    }

    public static void CreateFloatingText(string text, Transform location)
    {
        FloatingText instance = Instantiate(popupText);
        Vector2 screenPosition = Camera.main.WorldToScreenPoint(new Vector2(location.position.x + Random.Range(-.2f, .2f), location.position.y + Random.Range(-.2f, .2f)));
        //Vector2 screenPosition = new Vector2(Input.mousePosition.x, Input.mousePosition.y);
        instance.transform.SetParent(canvas.transform, false);
        instance.transform.position = screenPosition;
        instance.SetText(text);
        instance.GetComponent<Animator>().Play("PopupText");
    }
}

2

Could create all needed popups at scene initialization to cache them, then simply use pooling approach, to grab relevant ‘spare’ popups. And when done, ‘put back’ to pooling cache / mark as spare.

3

The problem is, that my game is gonna be some kind of clicker game. So I simply don’t know how often I have to click and the popup text itself will change as well.

4

It dosent matter. Instead of copying (instantiating popup GameObject?), you just use reuse existing one, which is not used. Similar technique, as for shooting many bullets.