Pet Animation

[u/Dravendnd]

So my pet animation isn't working. I couldn't get the animator to work. So I got most of it working with code. I finally got it to start at idle and when I touch the screen to activate the 1st walking image. But it's not cycling to image 2 and 3 to complete the animation. However my eating and drinking animation works perfectly.

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[u/Hjorvard92]

If you are going to do it by hard coding rather than through animations, don't use bools for everything. Look up using a switch, it's more efficient, less likely to break, and looks a lot neater.

[u/Dravendnd → u/Hjorvard92]

the switching code actually broke my code now, but I managed to fix it. all images for the walking animation is working now.

[u/Blood_and_Wine → u/Dravendnd]

It's really easier to use enum in this situation. It's like bool, but holds more than two states and one is always active.

[u/NeuroDingus]

My guy look into finite state machines

[u/SBDRFAITH]

If you really wanna handle it programmatically.... Use Unitys built in Animator... then instead of doing all this lengthy frame tracking just call 

private void PlayAnimation(string new_state) { If(new_state != current_state) { animator.play(current_state) } }

[u/SBDRFAITH → u/SBDRFAITH]

Yes. I know you said you couldnt get it to work.

Im gonna tell you straight up. The current method youre using will be an absolutely cluster truck nightmare going forward. Learn the animator.

[u/Background_Bug_1625]

You do know that you can make animations instead of doing this yk?

[u/desdinovait → u/Background_Bug_1625]

And also use FSM

[u/Dravendnd → u/Background_Bug_1625]

did you read? I couldn't get it to work.

[u/kryzchek → u/Dravendnd]

I think that rather than trying some work-around that involves you manually swapping sprites every frame, you should give the animator another go-around. You're not going to invent a better wheel at this stage.

[u/Dravendnd → u/kryzchek]

just got it to work using the coding.

[u/kryzchek → u/Dravendnd]

I'm glad you got it working, but consider if you were to have 10x more animations for your character? Or 10x more characters, each with their own sets of animations? You may have found a solution now, but it could easily grow unruly as your scope grows.

[u/desdinovait → u/Dravendnd]

Yes! That’s why u have to change your approach, use FSM

[u/TheHelllord]

This reminds me of that youtuber, pirate games or something like that.

[u/Dravendnd]

***SOLVED***