I just need to change one Animation Layers's weight from 0 to 1 at the press of a button

Unity Engine
1

I’m thinking it should be simple…but I’m just an artist and I need this stuff just to help build my portfolio, so what I getting so far is having the character getting into the Attack Layer but never coming out. I need to press “q” for having the Attack Layer fully weighted. It does work fine with GetKey, but I want it to stay that way until I press “q” again to get him out. Could someone please give me a hint at least. Cheers!

// Start is called before the first frame update
void Start()
{
any_controller = GetComponent();
any_controller.SetLayerWeight(0, 1);
}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{

if (Input.GetKeyDown(“q”))
{
any_controller.SetLayerWeight( any_controller.GetLayerIndex(“Attack Layer”), 1);
}
else if (!Input.GetKeyDown(“q”))
{
any_controller.SetLayerWeight( any_controller.GetLayerIndex(“Attack Layer”), 0);
}

2

If the above is the correct way to set the layer (I don’t know this but I’ll take your word), all you need to change is to make a bool in your class (not in your method!):

private bool InAttackMode;

then in your Update():

// toggle attack mode
if (Input.GetKeyDown("q"))
{
  InAttackMode = !InAttackMode;
}

// now check and act on it:

if (InAttackMode)
{
  any_controller.SetLayerWeight( any_controller.GetLayerIndex("Attack Layer"), 1);
}
else
{
  any_controller.SetLayerWeight( any_controller.GetLayerIndex("Attack Layer"), 0);
}

See how that flips the bool from true to false, then acts on it separately based on what it is?

3

It worked perfectly an the way you wrote this, makes sense to me( “writing” code for 4 days now). Thank you so much!!!

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