Use parameters for variable animation - animation

Question

I'd like to animate my Score-GUI text counting up to a variable value but there are two things in my way:
1: How can I animate to a variable instead of a fixed value?
2: Why can't I add own properties (like int) to my script and animate them?
For #2 I created a property in my script. Yet the editor won't show it in the AddProperty-dialog (as shown below):
public int currentScore = 0;
public int score {
get { return currentScore; }
set { this.currentScore += value; }
}
EDIT: The animator is set up in the most basic way:

Answer 1

Since you only have 1 Animation. An Animator is irrelevant to the solution. This is tested and working. Now you need to make the Animation a Legacy type to get this working because we are not going to use the Animator.
Click the Animation on the Project -> look at the upper right section of the Inspector view, there is a little button there which will drop down a selection. "Debug" then Check the Legacy.
Set your Animation to whatever you want. I force the WrapMode in the script to be wrap mode once. So it will only play once.
Now in the Animation Component make sure you select the Animation that you want by default or it wont work. Cause we only use anim.Play(); Without parameters meaning, run the default animation that is set.
I created a Text UI and added an Animation that alpha is 0 from the start and at the end point making it 1. You have to do that on your own.
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using UnityEngine.UI;
public class MyScore : MonoBehaviour {
// Use this for initialization
public int currentScore = 0;
public GameObject Myscore; // Drag the GameObject that has the Animation for your score.
public Text myScoreText; //Drag in the Inspector the Text object to reference
public Animation anim;
public int score
{
get { return currentScore; }
set { this.currentScore += value; }
}
void Start()
{
anim = Myscore.GetComponent<Animation>(); // Reference the Animation Component.
anim.wrapMode = WrapMode.Once; // Legacy animation Set to play once
AddScore();
}
public void AddScore()
{
score += 10;
myScoreText.text = score.ToString();
anim.Play();
Debug.Log("Current Score is "+ score);
Invoke("AddScore", 2);
}
}
Good luck.