How would I use Mecanim to holster or draw a weapon? (C#)

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I have two animations on my character:
DrawWeapon
HolsterWeapon

In the animator, they are both on a layer called “Holster”.

I have a boolean set up in mecanim that I want to use to control whether the weapon is currently holstered or not. I want the holstered boolean to be toggled between true and false upon pressing “q”.

Here is my attempted code(I excluded the unnecessary parts):

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class BusinessmanController : MonoBehaviour {

	private Animator anim;	// Reference to the animator component.

	private BusinessmanHashes hash;	// Reference to the HashIDs.

	public bool holsteredLocal = true; 

void Awake ()
	{
		// Setting up the references.
		anim = GetComponent<Animator>();
		hash = GetComponent<BusinessmanHashes>();
	}
	void Update ()
	{			
		//AudioManagement(shout);
		if (Input.GetKeyDown("q")) {
			Debug.Log ("go");
			if (holsteredLocal) {
				holsteredLocal = false;
				anim.SetBool(hash.holsterBool, false);
			}
			if (!holsteredLocal) {
				holsteredLocal = true;
				anim.SetBool(hash.holsterBool, true);
			}
		}
	}
		void DrawManagement (bool holstered)
		{
			// If the draw input has been pressed...
			if (holstered) {
				gameObject.GetComponent<HeadLookControllerImproved>().enabled = false;
			}
			if (!holstered) {
				gameObject.GetComponent<HeadLookControllerImproved>().enabled = true;
			}
		}		

}

The script compiles okay, but it doesn’t really do anything at all when I press ‘q’. I’m new to mecanim, can anyone help?

2

Nevermind, solved! Just had to adjust some things:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class BusinessmanController : MonoBehaviour {

	public float speedDampTime = 0.1f;	// The damping for the speed parameter
	
	
	private Animator anim;				// Reference to the animator component.
	private BusinessmanHashes hash;			// Reference to the HashIDs.
	
	public bool holsteredLocal = true;
	
	void Awake ()
	{
		// Setting up the references.
		anim = GetComponent<Animator>();
		hash = GetComponent<BusinessmanHashes>();
		
		// Set the weight of the layer to 1.
		anim.SetLayerWeight(1, 1f);
	}
	
	
	void FixedUpdate ()
	{
		// Cache the inputs.
		float h = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
		float v = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
		//bool sneak = Input.GetButton("Sneak");
		
		MovementManagement(h, v);
		
		
	}
	
	
	void Update ()
	{		
		
		if (Input.GetButtonDown("Draw")) {
			Debug.Log ("go");
			if (holsteredLocal == true) {
				holsteredLocal = false;
				anim.SetBool(hash.holsterBool, false);
			}
			else if (holsteredLocal == false) {
				holsteredLocal = true;
				anim.SetBool(hash.holsterBool, true);
			}
		}
		
		//DrawManagement(holsteredLocal);
	}
	
	
	void MovementManagement (float horizontal, float vertical)
	{
		// Set the sneaking parameter to the sneak input.
		//anim.SetBool(hash.sneakingBool, sneaking);
		
		// If there is some axis input...
		if(horizontal != 0f || vertical != 0f)
		{
			// ... set the players rotation and set the speed parameter to 5.5f.
			////Rotating(horizontal, vertical);
			anim.SetFloat(hash.speedFloat, 5.5f, speedDampTime, Time.deltaTime);
		}
		else
			// Otherwise set the speed parameter to 0.
			anim.SetFloat(hash.speedFloat, 0);
	}
	
		void DrawManagement (bool holstered)
		{
			// If the draw input has been pressed...
			if (holstered) {
				gameObject.GetComponent<HeadLookControllerImproved>().enabled = false;
			}
			if (!holstered) {
				gameObject.GetComponent<HeadLookControllerImproved>().enabled = true;
			}
		}		
			
		//	AudioSource.PlayClipAtPoint(shoutingClip, transform.position);
	//}
	
	
}