# random animations
**URL:** https://discussions.unity.com/t/random-animations/1065
**Category:** Questions & Answers
**Created:** [January 16, 2010, 12:01pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/random-animations/1065 "2010-01-16T12:01:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@system](https://discussions.unity.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2010, 12:01pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/random-animations/1065/1 "2010-01-16T12:01:01Z")
how can i have animations randomly play? for example i have 2 idle animations, one main and one that i would like to play once through at random intervals while the character is not moving. how would i go about getting this to happen? so far i can only get the main idle animation to play.
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### Author:  [@duck](https://discussions.unity.com/u/duck)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2010, 2:41pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/random-animations/1065/2 "2010-01-16T14:41:48Z")
perhaps your idle animation could be controlled by a coroutine, something like this:
```auto
function Idle()
{
while (idling) {
if (Random.Range(0,5) > 0) {
animation.Play(idleClipNormal);
yield WaitForSeconds (idleClipNormal.length);
} else {
animation.Play(idleClipOccasional);
yield WaitForSeconds (idleClipOccasional.length);
}
}
}
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://discussions.unity.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2010, 5:23pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/random-animations/1065/3 "2010-03-01T17:23:02Z")
This is what I did:
```auto
var SceletorObject : GameObject = null;
var curAnim : String = null;
var doAnimation : boolean = false;
private var AnimObj : Animation = null;
function Start(){
AnimObj=SceletorObject.GetComponent(Animation);
}
function OnTriggerEnter() {
AnimObj.PlayQueued("raise");
doAnimation=true;
}
function OnTriggerExit() {
AnimObj.PlayQueued("hit");
AnimObj.PlayQueued("die");
doAnimation=false;
}
function OnTriggerStay(){
if (!AnimObj.isPlaying && doAnimation)
doNextAnim();
}
function doNextAnim(){
var anims=new Array("idle1","idle1","idle1","idle1","idle2","strike");
var length=anims.length-1;
var index=Mathf.Round(length*UnityEngine.Random.value);
curAnim=anims[index];
AnimObj.PlayQueued(curAnim);
}
```
HTH