Using a string as a function name?

Unity Engine
1

Hi,

I’m calling sound effects on animations by adding an event on the animation timeline and inserting the corresponding function name used in my animation script.

I was wondering if it’s possible to automate this process a little bit, so I don’t need to go into the animation script and edit all function names for the different animations, but rather just set the function name from the inspector using a string. I was thinking about something like this:

public class FMODAnimation : MonoBehaviour
{
    public string AnimationName;
    public FMODUnity.EventReference FireballEvent;

    void AnimationName()
    {
        FMODUnity.RuntimeManager.PlayOneShot(FireballEvent, transform.position);
    }
}

Don’t mind the FMOD code, it’s really just about the function name. Obviously it is not working, but is there a way to set the function name somehow from outside the script?

2

No you can’t do that. However, it should be possible to pass parameter into AnimationName() that would indicate which sounds to play

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