Weapon Shooting Animation not playing

Unity Engine
1

Here is the code

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class GunScript : MonoBehaviour
{
   
    [SerializeField] float Damage = 10f;
    [SerializeField] float range = 100f;
    [SerializeField] Camera Cam;
    [SerializeField] Animator WeaponAnimator;
    [SerializeField] AudioSource ShootSource;
    [SerializeField] AudioClip ShootSound;
    [SerializeField] ParticleSystem MuzzleFlash;
    [SerializeField] bool IsAutomatic;
    bool isfiring = false;
    [SerializeField] string ShootAnimation;
    [SerializeField] string IdleAnimation;
   
    void Update()
    {
        WeaponAnimator.Play(IdleAnimation);
        if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
        {
            Shoot();
        }
    }

    void Shoot()
    {
        RaycastHit Hit;
        if (Physics.Raycast(Cam.transform.position, Cam.transform.forward, out Hit, range))
        {
            Debug.Log(Hit.transform.name);
        }

        ShootSource.PlayOneShot(ShootSound);
        MuzzleFlash.Play();
        WeaponAnimator.Play(ShootAnimation);
    }
}

I have tried putting WeaponAnimator.Play(IdleAnimation) under Void Start and it does, but if I do that, then it screws up the weapon switch code by only playing the “Idle Animations” once. I also do not have any of the idle animations on loop.

2

You should really use the Animator State machine to control your animation transitions. Then you can make the shooting animation play just by setting a trigger in code and the state machine will take care of playing the shooting animation and transitioning back to idle.

Using Play causes all kinds of issues like this.

3

I have already messed with triggers but the animation wouldn’t play