I have an animation in Unity, its 2D, made from Sprites.
My animation is blocked, I mean, I can't add a new sprite, click play button, or add a new Property.
In order to animate an object in Unity you have to have a valid object selected, that is to say, the object can be animated.
This is typically a game object that is selected in the hierarchy.
Without this, how does the animation window know what it can and can't animate? That is the way that properties are animated in Unity, it needs to know what it is supposed to be animating, the valid object tells it what can be animated. Without this knowledge, the animation window will lock down certain features, adding keys and playing the animation.
In your case, select the game object that you want to have animated and, if you have a valid animator controller in place, the animation window will set itself up with all the necessary bits and pieces, namely the animation clips. Then you can animate to your hearts content.
Here's the animation window reference:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/animeditor-UsingAnimationEditor.html
Hopefully this answers your question.
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Ok, this is frustrating but Ive created an animation loop on a prefab however after the prefab is spawned the animation (which is changes in position/rotation) runs the animation (thus moving the prefab) far away from where the prefab is spawned.
For example if my prefab is spawned at the origin, because of where I placed the prefab when I animated it, it animates in THAT place.
I need my prefab to run the animation but in the PLACE where it was spawned, not where I animated the original prefab. How can I fix this? What am I doing wrong?
I animated using Unity's animator.
This is an common mistake in unity animation.
It's the case when you have to animate the position and at the same time change the position from the code.
In this case the simplest workaround would be to move your visuals to a child game object and animate the position of that object. Now you can change the position of the "parent" game object from code and still have the additive animation on the "child" game object.
Uncheck "Apply Root Motion" in the animator. This will prevent the animator from moving the object. The object will then move using only your code.
I would like animate a object similar 3D sequence diagram using Unity 3D. I don´t know what is better form to animate, if Animation or Animator...
So, I do a preview on Power Point https://youtu.be/tgfPIT47xGY
Animation vs Animator:
The Animation component is an old component used for animation in our legacy animation system. It remains in Unity for backwards compatibility but you should not use it for new projects. Use the up-to-date Animator component instead. SOURCE
Use the Animation Editor View for this.
To animate Game Objects in Unity, the object or objects need an Animator Component attached. This Animator Component must reference an Animator Controller, which in turn contains references to one or more Animation Clips.
When using the Animation View to begin animating a GameObject in Unity, these items will be automatically created, attached and set-up for you. SOURCE
Though slumtrimpet is obviously right, I can't see why you might need animations to create something like the video you shown. Why don't just use sequential instantiates with the help of coroutines or simple timers?
I'm developing a 2D game in Unity (Version 5.1.2) which has an animation.
The animation is generated by flipping through the sprites in the sprite sheet.
My problem is that the animation is playing as it should in the "Scene View" but not in "Game View".
I normally create animations by using the sprite editor and then drag & drop all the sprites on the screen (Scene View).
It creates a Sprite Renderer to switch the sprites but I would like the Image Component to flip through the sprites. It seems like only sprites in the Image Component is being displayed in the "Game View".
Is there any way I can get some assistance on this please.
Its really strange that you are only seeing that in your Scene View. If the animation is your default animation? Otherwise, make sure that you are sending the right parameters to your animator. A good way to test it is opening your Animator windows, checking all transitions, and manually filling the parameters to see how it works wile the game is running. Also, check if the transitions between animations has exit times and transition durations, and disable them.
I'm trying new unity 3d options for 2d games. I'm trying to create background that changes depending on actions i made. So if i press button one i get sprite one as background and if two i get sprite two. Since I have 32 options, I figure out the best way would be to have an Animator, that changes frame depending on button click. So i created animator and animation. But the problem is I can't set time to where to stop animation to show selected frame.
I'm trying like that:
Animator ani=background.GetComponent<Animator>();
ani.animation["field_back_anim"].time=0.5f;
ani.speed=0;
But it fails at second line with that error:
MissingComponentException: There is no 'Animation' attached to the "background" game object, but a script is trying to access it.
You probably need to add a Animation to the game object "background". Or your script needs to check if the component is attached before using it.
However if I do no code the animation just plays trough all 16 frames. So i gues there is animation after all.
On the background GameObject I have 2 components first is sprite renderer and second is animator. When I open animator in Animator view i see there green rectangle saying Any state and yellow one with "field_back_anim". I don't get what i'm doing wrong.
I will also except any other solution that does the following.
Thanks!
The animator component is used to control transition between many animation clips. If you're going to playing an animation clip on a gameobject, an animation component is proper, not the animator. Remove the animator and add an animation component to your background gameobject in the inspector. If you set animation property to field_back_anim, your gameobject will animate well. Manipulation codes should be changed like below.
Animation ani = background.GetComponent<Animation>();
ani["field_back_anim"].time = 0.5f;
ani["field_back_anim"].speed = 0;
This appears to be such a common problem, that finding answer to my specific case is near impossible, because of the amount of noise in google or forum searches.
I have imported object to unity from blender. This objects had smaller objects inside it. Those smaller objects have animation on them, which was created in unity. If I open the animation window (Window->Animation) and press play - I can see correct movement of an object. Animation is set to play automatically in inspector, culling type is always animate. If I play the game however, animation does not play. Why?
add the animation to the main object, then animate the smaller object...
you have to put animation component to main object, then animate the small part...
it is important...
it should work
I Could not find any unity inspector based answer. For now, the best option I have is to create new script, and in update() check if the animation is playing. If not, play it. Very inefficient, so to whoever might stumble upon this post in the future, I suggest you try to add this.animation.play() in setting up part of the script.
I know it's kinda late, but this is for others having this same issue.
Animations in Unity have types (2 of which I know).
Type 1 can be attached to an object using the Animation Component.
Type 2 can only be used in Animators (Mechanim).
Animations imported with FBX files are type 2 (and as far as I know, animation type in FBX files can NOT be changed), so they will usually not work when attached directly to an object with "Animation". They should be used with Animators and Animator Controllers. Just create a New Controller and add the animation. It will become the default animation state and play automatically.
If you want it to loop, click on the FBX asset, and in the Animation tab, choose Loop Time and click Apply.