How to play an animation

Questions & Answers
1

I’m trying to play an animation when the user clicks with their left mouse button.

var glockshoot : AnimationClip;

if (Input.GetMouseButton(0)) {
    gameObject.GetComponent.<Animation>("glockshoot").Play ();
}

However, when I use this, the console tells me the following:

The best overload for the method 'UnityEngine.GameObject.GetComponent.<UnityEngine.Animation>()' is not compatible with the argument list '(String)'.

Does anyone know what I’m doing wrong?

2

You have the wrong syntax, it should be:

var glockshoot : AnimationClip;
 
 if (Input.GetMouseButton(0)) {
     gameObject.GetComponent.<Animation>().Play ("glockshoot");
 }