Weird animation lag

[TomasPosefko]

Hi!
I am new to Unity. I am trying to do easy game, but I am struggling with some script or animation thing. I’ve got 4 + 1 moves: WalkFwd, WalkBwd, WalkL and WalkR…But the only one thing that really works on key press is the last one in script - WalkR. Every other animation is stuck in some weird lag. I press it, it is moving really slowly but it looks like that animation starts and stops and it is in one infinite loop (looks like vibrating).
Here is my script:

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

public class CharactersAnimationScript : MonoBehaviour {
    private Animator anim;
    
    
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        anim = GetComponent<Animator> ();
  
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
    if(Input.GetKey(KeyCode.S)) {
        anim.CrossFade ("KB_WalkBwd", 0);
        anim.SetBool ("IsWalkingBwd", true);
        anim.SetBool ("IsIdle", false);  
    }
    else {
      anim.SetBool ("IsWalkingBwd", false);
      anim.SetBool ("IsIdle", true);
    }
      
    if(Input.GetKey(KeyCode.W)) {
        anim.CrossFade ("KB_WalkFwd2", 0);
        anim.SetBool ("IsWalkingFwd", true);
        anim.SetBool ("IsIdle", false);  
    }
    else {
      anim.SetBool ("IsWalkingFwd", false);
      anim.SetBool ("IsIdle", true);
    }
      
    if(Input.GetKey(KeyCode.A)) {
        anim.CrossFade ("KB_WalkLeft135", 0);
    }  
      
    if(Input.GetKey(KeyCode.A)) {
        anim.SetBool ("IsWalkingL", true);
        anim.SetBool ("IsIdle", false);
    }
    else {
      anim.SetBool ("IsWalkingL", false);
      anim.SetBool ("IsIdle", true);
    }
      
      
    if(Input.GetKey(KeyCode.D)) {
        anim.CrossFade ("KB_WalkRight135", 0);
        anim.SetBool ("IsWalkingR", true);
        anim.SetBool ("IsIdle", false);
    }
    else {
      anim.SetBool ("IsWalkingR", false);
      anim.SetBool ("IsIdle", true);
    }
  
    }
}

[StarManta]

In general, you shouldn’t use anim.CrossFade in normal use. When controlling an animator, don’t think of it as telling the Animator what animation you want to play; think of it as, telling the Animator what’s going on in the world, and then letting its own state machine graph work out what animation it should be playing. The conflict between these two may be what’s causing your jitter.

So try removing all the anim.CrossFade lines, and see if it works as you expect. If not, then we’ll need to start digging into how your Animator is set up.

[TomasPosefko]

@StarManta

In general, you shouldn’t use anim.CrossFade in normal use. When controlling an animator, don’t think of it as telling the Animator what animation you want to play; think of it as, telling the Animator what’s going on in the world, and then letting its own state machine graph work out what animation it should be playing. The conflict between these two may be what’s causing your jitter.

So try removing all the anim.CrossFade lines, and see if it works as you expect. If not, then we’ll need to start digging into how your Animator is set up.

Thank you! It works.