how to do an action at a certain point of an animation in mecanim

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1

With this new animation interface in unity Im wondering how am I able to sync an action and animation together so in a certain part of an animation something happens for example I put an animation of a character raising his arms to shoot a fireball and when his arms are fully raised the fireball shoots not his shooting the fireball when is arms are still coming up thank you.

2

An easy way to do this would just be to set a delay on the projectile spawning in code, but if you really need it to be controlled by the animator, you could place a script on the object that’s being animated, give it a function that is called when a value (say a boolean) is true. In the animation, just animate the value at the point in time that you want it to happen.

public bool makeFireball = false;

void FireFireball()
{
     Instantiate(fireballPrefab, transform.position, transform.rotation);
}

void Update()
{
     if (makeFireball)
     {
          makeFireball = false;
          FireFireball();
     }
}