How do I stop my walk animation playing, when my character is idle?

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I am programming a walking script for a top-down perspective RPG.

All the walking animations play correctly when walking in each direction, but when the player is not walking, the animations for the west-facing walk ( wSprites) carry on playing. I’m not sure what’s caused this.

Here is my code: thanks for your time!

public class TopDownController : MonoBehaviour
{

    public Rigidbody2D body;
    public SpriteRenderer SpriteRenderer;

    public List<Sprite> nSprites;
    public List<Sprite> neSprites;
    public List<Sprite> eSprites;
    public List<Sprite> seSprites;
    public List<Sprite> sSprites;
    public List<Sprite> swSprites;
    public List<Sprite> wSprites;
    public List<Sprite> nwSprites;

    public float walkSpeed;

    public float frameRate;

    float idleTime;

    Vector2 direction;

    void Start()
    {
        
    }
    void Update()
    {
        direction = new Vector2(Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal"), Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical")).normalized;

        body.velocity = direction * walkSpeed;

        List<Sprite> directionSprites = GetSpriteDirection();

        if(directionSprites != null)
        {
            float playTime = Time.time - idleTime;
            int totalFrames = (int)(playTime * frameRate);
            int frame = totalFrames % directionSprites.Count;

            SpriteRenderer.sprite = directionSprites[frame];
        }
        else
        {
            idleTime = Time.time;
        }
    }


    List<Sprite> GetSpriteDirection()
    {

        List<Sprite> selectedSprites = null;


        if (direction.y > 0) //north
        {
            if (direction.x > 0)
            {
                selectedSprites = neSprites;
            }
            else if (direction.x < 0)
            {
                selectedSprites = nwSprites;
            }
            else
            {
                selectedSprites = nSprites;
            }
        }

        else if (direction.y < 0) //south
        {
            if (direction.x > 0)
            {
                selectedSprites = seSprites;
            }
            else if (direction.x < 0)
            {
                selectedSprites = swSprites;
            }
            else
            {
                selectedSprites = sSprites;
            }
        }
        else // neutral
        {
            if (direction.x > 0)
            {
                selectedSprites = eSprites;
            }
            else
            {
                selectedSprites = wSprites;
            }
        }

        return selectedSprites;

    }

}
2

Because in your code marked neutral your saying if the x direction of your player is less then 0 play the wSprites.
Your code is suggesting that if all the code above line 95 is not true then play the wSprite.