How to Control animator of child objects

Questions & Answers
1

I have a parent with an object as a child. I have also referenced the child in the parent as

public GameObject guy;

The child game object has an Animator controller attached with “Idle” and “Jump” animations.
I have a transition that goes from Idle to jump with a bool condition of “jump - true”.

On the parent object I would like to trigger this condition. I have tried

guy.anim.SetBool("Transform", true);

I keep getting “Type UnityEngine.GameObject' does not contain a definition for anim’ and no extension method anim' of type UnityEngine.GameObject’ could be found”

I have

private Animator anim;

in the scripts of both the parent and child objects…
Can anyone point me in the right direction please?

2

Well, the parent does not see the components on the child, you have to get them by hand.

Try

guyAnim = guy.GetComponent<Animator>();

and then set the bool on the “anim”:

guyAnim.SetBool("jump", true);