Bug Animator is not playing Animator Controller error.

I am remaking pong and I have powerups that play a stretch animation making the players longer. When I try to trigger the animation using OnTriggerEnter2d it says the error "Animator is not playing Animator Controller error". Does anybody know a solution to this problem?

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using UnityEngine;
4. using UnityEngine.Animations;
5.  
6. public class animateTarget : MonoBehaviour
7. {
8.     public Animator Anim;
9.     private bool start = false;
10.     public float lifeTime = 5;
11.     public float lifeTimeCounter = 0;
12.  
13.     // Start is called before the first frame update
14.     void Start()
15.     {
16.         Anim.gameObject.SetActive(true);
17.         Anim.GetComponent<Animator>();
18.      
19.     }
20.     void Update()
21.     {
22.         if (lifeTimeCounter > lifeTime)
23.         {
24.             Destroy(gameObject);
25.         }
26.         lifeTimeCounter = lifeTimeCounter + Time.deltaTime;
27.     }
28.     // Update is called once per frame
29.     private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collision)
30.     {
31.         if (collision.gameObject.CompareTag("Ball") && !start)
32.         {
33.             Debug.Log("penis");
34.             Anim.SetBool("start", true);
35.          
36.  
37.  
38.         }
39.  
40.     }
41. }

 

This error is apparently caused by the animator being inactive; check out this post for more details: https://forum.unity.com/threads/ani...nityengine-animator-settrigger-string.465254/

Line 17 isn't doing anything. If you're trying to assign a reference to the "Anim" variable, you need to do it like this:

Anim = GetComponent<Animator>();