Increase animation speed of animator

[TSI25]

alright so i have a game object in my scene that has a sprite renderer, an animator, and a single script. If I just play the animation it looks fine but I need to increase its playback speed. The script looks like this…

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class NEWExplosionAnimation : MonoBehaviour 
{

	void Start () 
	{
		animation["explosion"].speed = 1.5f;
	}
}

Right now there doesnt seem to be any difference with or without the script, except that I do get an error. The error i get is “MissingComponentException: There is no ‘Animation’ attached to the “explosion” game object, but a script is trying to access it.”.

So my question is how do I increase the speed that this animation is going to play, given that I have an animator and apparently I don’t have an animation. Do I need to add an animation component to this game object? or do I need to make another game object entirely for my animation?

If anyone can point me to a helpful tutorial about sprite-sheet animation (instead of unity’s 3d model statemachine heavy tutorial) that would also be fantastic.

[pgomes]

If you have an Animator attached to the object, you should be able to affect the overall playback speed:

Animator animator = GetComponent<Animator>();
animator.speed = 1.5f;

[Cherno]

If you want to call an animation, as in your example, you have to have an Animation component with the animation clips added.