Trigger animation from code / Disable state blending

Unity Engine
1

Hey Ho!

Is there any chance to trigger an animation from code?
The new Animator is driving me crazy…
I create a state machine myself, if i need one. Am i really forced to use the Animator (States, Transitions and stuff) to trigger animations?
And maybe any idea how to disable state blending in the transition inspector? Maybe i don’t get the advantages of this whole new system, but tk2d still seems to be the right choice for a 2D sprite game :confused:

Cheers!

2

You don’t need to use the animator, just add the animation component to your gameobject and then you can play animations from it in code.

3

When i drag the Animation onto the GameObject, it automagically adds an Animator and creates a new Controller associated with the Animation :confused:
All i want to do is call something like

gameObj.Animator.Play("Idle")

So easy… and yet so impossible? ^^

Cheers!

4

Your skipping a step. Unity is assuming you want to use the Animator Component if you start by dragging the Animation onto the gameobject. Start by Selecting your gameobject and from the top select Components>Miscellaneous>Animation. This will add an Animation “Component” to the object.
see: Unity - Scripting API: Animation

The Animation Component has a list of Animations that you can put all of your animations in and then reference from a script.

There is a distinction between an Animation Asset which stores the animation information and an Animation Component which manages an object’s animations at runtime.