Multiple Enemies execute animation at same time

Unity Engine
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Hi, still new to development. The problem: when my player collides with one of multiple enemies every enemy starts the attack animation. How to I get only one of the enemies to execute the attack animation??

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class Zombie : EnemyBehaviour
{
    protected override void takeDamage(int damage)
    {
        //play hurt sound
        //play animation if available
        //if the sound is playing don't play again till over otherwise play sound
        if(!sound[0].isPlaying)
            sound[0].Play();
        //call base.takeDamage to decrement health
        base.takeDamage(damage);
    }

    void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collision)
    {
        Debug.Log(collision.gameObject.GetComponent<Collider2D>());
        if (collision.gameObject.tag.Equals("Player"))
        {
            isAttacking = true;
            isMoving = false;
            Debug.Log(animate.GetBool("isAttacking"));
            Debug.Log(animate.GetBool("isMoving"));
        }
    }
    void OnTriggerExit2D(Collider2D collision)
    {
        if (collision.gameObject.tag.Equals("Player"))
        {
            isAttacking = false;
            isMoving = true;
        }
    }

    private void attackPlayer()
    {
            animate.SetBool("isAttacking", true);
            animate.SetBool("isMoving", false);
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        if (isAttacking)
        {
            attackPlayer();
        }
        else
        {
            animate.SetBool("isAttacking", false);
            animate.SetBool("isMoving", true);
        }   
    }
}

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEditor.Animations;
using UnityEngine;

//class contains all the needed data and components of Enemy objects
public class EnemyBehaviour : MonoBehaviour
{
    [System.Serializable]
    public class EnemyStats
    {
        public int health = 10;
        public float speed = 1.0f;
        public int atk_damage = 1;
    }

    public EnemyStats stats = new EnemyStats();
    //animator component to control animations
   // [HideInInspector]
    public Animator animate;
    //Rigidbody component to control movement
    [HideInInspector]
    public Rigidbody2D rb;
    //audio source array to store enemy sounds
    public AudioSource[] sound;
    //bool for if enemy is attacking somethinh
    public static bool isAttacking;
    //bool for is the enemy is moving or not
    public static bool isMoving;

    private void Awake()
    {
        animate = this.gameObject.GetComponent<Animator>();
        //_collider = GetComponent<Collider2D>();
        sound = this.gameObject.GetComponents<AudioSource>();
        rb = this.gameObject.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
    }

    //method to decrement the amount of health
    //destroys enemy when health is zero
    protected virtual void takeDamage(int damage)
    {
        //decrement our max health by damage amount
        stats.health -= damage;
        if(stats.health <= 0)
        {
            //play death animation and sound
            animate.Play("Death");
            //call killenemy to destroy this
            GameManager.KillEnemy(this);
        }
    }

    private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collision)
    {
        if(collision.gameObject.name.Equals("Hero"))
        {
            Physics2D.IgnoreLayerCollision(9, 14, true);
        }
    }
}
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Your problem is that you’re using static variables here:

    //bool for if enemy is attacking somethinh
    public static bool isAttacking;
    //bool for is the enemy is moving or not
    public static bool isMoving;

Static variables are shared among all the scripts. There is only one copy in your entire game of those variables and all of your enemies are reading/writing them.

3

thanks for the quick reply. Okay i fixed that but how to do share those bools with other scripts. I have patrol scripts that need that bool to work??