So I upgraded my project to Unity 5 from Unity 4.6 and all was good except for the lighting (which needed rebaking) and apparently animations.
None of my old animations work, nor can I get a new one to work. The input is triggered, the animation is shown to “Play” in the animator and yet I don’t get to see the animation play in realtime.
Suggestions?
I should note that my characters animations do work, yet my weapons animation do not. Does it have to do with the Entry and Exit?
Try uncheking “Apply root motion” tick box. Also, make sure that the animated objects don’t have a tick in the “Batching Static” tick box.
Unity 5 seems to mess up the Mechanim links sometimes on import. Apparently, restarting Unity after import without hitting “play” seems to fix this.
Or, you could be doing what I did accidentally, and not realize that I had paused by default (set the time.scale to 0 inadvertently) and didn’t have anything attached to the test assets I was using the actually “unpause”.
I ended up solving this by removing the animator component and putting it back. All animation related to that animator now work but a few are looping for some reason and I can’t figure out why. I’ve checked to make sure loop isn’t ticked for the animation and I can see the bools are simple toggles, yet one of them loops.