UI animation issues with layering animator controllers

[Kurt-Dekker]

@zarbald5

The problem is that the charm animator controller sprite is just always getting overwritten by the last frame of last animation played by the panel animator controller.

Perhaps you have Write Defaults (x) checked in your animation state?

Otherwise, here’s how to untangle code / animation:

Anything with Animations / Animators / Mechanim:

Only consider the code AFTER you have done this critical step:

Always start with the Animator state machine and prove it works in isolation, no code at all.

Here’s more reading:

Press keyboard key to play animation using different animations per assigned key

With animation always start with the animator / animation setup itself. You can clear the scene, pull in the animated object, then while the game is running, use the Animator window to wiggle all the properties to make sure it does what you want when you set it. If you can’t get it to work by hand-setting the properties, nothing you do in code will matter, obviously. Usually for one-shot things like a dance you use .SetTrigger, not .SetBool… then mark the dance animation to cleanly exit on it…