Swapping full sprite sheets out. Same animations and controllers

Unity Engine
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I have a sprite with a gun in hand. He runs, idles, jumps, falls etc. When a new gun is equipped the gun changes but I want all the animations to remain the same. I tried to separate just the gun sprite and match the animation of the bobbing in walking with the main sprite etc etc, this just was a mess. So I want to just have 4 full sprite sheets and swap out which is the source depending upon which is the equipped gun. How do I do this? Is this a material change somehow? Basically just point to a different sprite source based on the equipped gun.

Attached is how I tried to have the gun its own animated object bobbing on the frames of the walking (Where it bobs)…this worked ‘ok’ but if I walked left then right then left, the localscale jacked up the animation count on the bob (which was gameobject with an animator that was a child of the main sprite);

So the attached files is what I tried to use now, I want to have just many copies of the main sprite sheet with that gun (correctly bobbing for the walk animations) always in hand, and there are 4 different types of guns. Then ideally just swap out what the source is…

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I tried to use the information provided here:

(@20:00 minutes)

to reskin, though in their example it was sprites but everything was animated using bones and what not, not actual .anim files…so the code below does load the right image but it does not adhere to any of my animations that change the AnimState and select different images…

public class ReSkinAnimation : MonoBehaviour {

    public string spriteSheetName;
  
    void LateUpdate() {      
        var subSprites = Resources.Load<Sprite>("Player/" + spriteSheetName);
        SpriteRenderer spr = GetComponent<SpriteRenderer>();
        spr.sprite = subSprites;  
    }
  
}

So perhaps their method in the video doesn’t really work for true frame to frame sprite animation :confused: The animations are the same, I just want the source sprite sheet to change… like if its to play animation frame 5 play it but it might be from sheet 1 or 2 or three depending upon the equipped weapon. This seems easier said than done.