Resolved Animations Only Play After I Select a GameObject

Hey everyone!

I am working on animating a bow in my game. Locally, everything is working great, and has been for a long time. However, I am now getting the animations set up over a network (using Mirror). I have run into an issue that I have not seen with any other animators over my network. The problem is this; When I first start the game and equip a bow, no animations are shown across the network for the bow. However, once I select any GameObject in the hierarchy, the bow animations start showing correctly over the network, and remain working until I close the match or drop the bow, pick it up, and re-equip it.

If anyone has any ideas, please let me know! Otherwise, I will keep problem solving it on my end.

Thanks!

 

I figured it out myself. I had a script on the bow that controls the animations for it. This script only "works" for the local player, but was not disabled on non-local player characters. Something from this script was interfering with the animations. When I was selecting a gameobject in the scene, my script was getting turned off, like it was supposed to be, and then the animations worked. All I did to fix it was to add a bit of code to turn the script off during its Start() if it was not the local player.