Unity animations for multiple game objects

Unity Engine
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I have defined an animation controller which controls the animations of the enemy game objects in my game
the enemies are spawning with some time gaps.
the animation works perfectly when i try to spawn just one enemy but when i want multiple enemies the animation state doesn’t change as expected
(i am trying to make my enemies come near the player object and then i want the punch animation to be played, when there are multiple enemies the punch animation is not at all played, even when they are near the player object they just keep running).

2

I think to get some help on this you might have to share more about your setup. Some pictures of the game/Inspector, and the code you use to run this logic.

3

I am not able to attach videos here, what do i do?

4

Below is my enemy script

using UnityEngine;

public class EnemyAI : MonoBehaviour
{
private float attackRange = 3.3f;
private float attackCooldown = 1f;

private Transform wallTarget;
private float attackTimer;
private float range = 5.0f;
private float rand;
private Vector3 porPos;
private Animator anim;
private float minX = -13;
private float maxX = 13;
private float minZ = -12;
private float maxZ = 13;
private float ypos;

private float speed = 12;

private Damage damage;

private Rigidbody rigidBody;

void Start()
{
    GameObject enemyChar1 = GameObject.Find("EnemyChar1");
    if (enemyChar1 != null)
    {
        anim = enemyChar1.GetComponent<Animator>();
    }

    ypos = gameObject.transform.position.y;
    rigidBody = gameObject.GetComponent<Rigidbody>();

    GameObject portugese = GameObject.Find("Portugese");
    if (portugese != null)
    {
        damage = portugese.GetComponent<Damage>();
        wallTarget = portugese.transform;
    }

    rand = Random.Range(-range, range);
    if (wallTarget != null)
    {
        porPos = new Vector3(wallTarget.transform.position.x + rand, wallTarget.transform.position.y, wallTarget.transform.position.z + 1);
    }
    attackTimer = 0f;
}

void Update()
{
    float clampedX = Mathf.Clamp(rigidBody.position.x, minX, maxX);
    float clampedZ = Mathf.Clamp(rigidBody.position.z, minZ, maxZ);
    rigidBody.position = new Vector3(clampedX, ypos, clampedZ);

    if(attackTimer > 0f)
    {
        attackTimer -= Time.deltaTime;
    }

    if (wallTarget != null)
    {
        float distanceToWall = Vector3.Distance(transform.position, porPos);

        if (distanceToWall <= attackRange)
        {
            if (attackTimer <= 0f)
            {
                AttackWall();
                attackTimer = attackCooldown;
            }
        }
        else
        {
            MoveTowardsWall();
        }
    }
}

void MoveTowardsWall()
{
    if(anim!=null)
        anim.SetBool("Run", true);
    Vector3 direction = (porPos - transform.position).normalized;
    Quaternion lookRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(new Vector3(direction.x, 0, direction.z));
    transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, lookRotation, Time.deltaTime * speed);
    transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(transform.position, porPos, speed * Time.deltaTime);
    // Add your movement code here (e.g., using a NavMeshAgent if you want more advanced movement)
}

void AttackWall()
{
    if(anim!=null)
        anim.SetBool("Run", false);
    if (damage != null)
    {
        damage.takeDamage();
    }
}

}

5

Generally what I do is I upload them on Youtube, hidden.

6

Hmm. What is EnemyChar1? It’s one of the enemies, right?

You can’t make a script that looks for an enemy like that, by name, and use it on multiple enemies… all of the copies of the script will find the same enemy, right?
That’s why probably it breaks (without having looked at the rest).

Is this script attached to the enemy Prefab? Why don’t you just get a reference to it using gameObject? Then you can do gameObject.GetComponent<Animator>() etc.

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EnemyChar1 is actualy child of the empty game object named “enemy” which is actually the enemy prefab in my game

by the way here is the link to my video,