How to start an animation of the object itself by trigger enter in #C?

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Hey folks, I am making a game where the main character can encounter bushes and branches. I intended to start an animation of these branches that makes them wave during an encounter with the player. I now have 2 scripts. one attached to the branch and one on the polygon collider which is on the branch. I am asking this question because I wasn’t able to find this problem in #C

The branch scripts looks like this:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
public class MovingBranch: MonoBehaviour {
	
	public bool PlayAnimation = false;
	
	
	void Start () {    
		
	}
	
	
	void Update () {
		if(PlayAnimation){
			// Whatever function or code you write to start the animation
			// or however you want to do the animation}
		}
	}
}

And the script attached on the polygon collider looks like this:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class Box: MonoBehaviour {
	// Make sure you have the Branch Object
	public GameObject Branch;
	// The Script of the Branch;
	private MovingBranch movingbranch;
	
	
	void Start () {    
		// This will get the script and set the trainscript
		movingbranch= Branch.GetComponent("MovingBranch") as MovingBranch ;
	}
	
	// Update is called once per frame
	void Update () {
		
	}
	
	void OnTriggerEnter(Collider collision){
		if(collision.gameObject.tag == "Player"){
			movingbranch.PlayAnimation = true;
		}
	}
}

I converted a existing script into my project but it simply doesn’t work even though there are no errors.
I don’t know why the animation is not started when being touched by the main player? I am a beginner in scripting.

If somebody can point me into the right direction that would be really helpful :slight_smile:

2

Put some Debug.Log messages in your methods and check if the player is colliding with the branch.

For now you could just replace:

if(collision.gameObject.tag == "Player"){
       movingbranch.PlayAnimation = true;
}

With:

movingbranch.animation.Play();

To see if it works.