Can't call animation through script

Essentially, I am making a script that calls an animation whenever you are within certain distance of an object and hit a key. The game tells how close/far you are from the object using a raycast, which works fine and changes whenever you move. But then I get close to the door and hit E, nothing happens. I did a debug.log and the animation isn't even called. I'd love to know what I am doing wrong here. Any help is appreciated. Door animation script is below, along with the raycast.

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. using System.Collections;
3. using System.Collections.Generic;
4. using UnityEngine;
5.  
6. public class DoorAnimation : MonoBehaviour {
7.     public Animator anim;
8.     public AudioSource dooropen;
9.     float TheDistance = PlayerRaycast.DistanceFromTarget;
10.  
11.     // Use this for initialization
12.     void Start () {
13.         anim = GetComponent<Animator>();
14.     if (Input.GetButtonDown("Action")) {
15.         if (TheDistance <= 2) {
16.             OpenTheDoor();
17.  
18.         }
19.    
20. }
21.    
22.     }
23.    
24.     // Update is called once per frame
25.     void OpenTheDoor () {  
26. anim.GetComponent<Animator>().Play("Door001Anim", -1, 0);
27.         if(Input.GetButtonDown("Action"))
28.         { dooropen.Play();
29.          }
30.  
31.     }
32. }
33.    
34.  

(Raycast script)

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using System.Collections;
3. using System.Collections.Generic;
4.  
5. public class PlayerRaycast: MonoBehaviour {
6. public static float DistanceFromTarget;
7.  
8. public float ToTarget;
9.  
10.  
11. void  Update (){
12.     RaycastHit hit;
13.         if (Physics.Raycast (transform.position, transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.forward), out hit)) {
14.             ToTarget = hit.distance;
15.             DistanceFromTarget = ToTarget;      
16.         }
17. }
18.  
19. }
20.  

 

You're retrieving the Animator component in your Start method, so there's no need to call

Code (CSharp):

1. anim.GetComponent<Animator>()

in your OpenTheDoor method. I would also use

Code (CSharp):

1. Input.GetButton("Action")

instead.

Try:

Code (CSharp):

1. void OpenTheDoor() {
2.     anim.Play("Door001Anim", -1, 0);
3.     if (Input.GetButton("Action")) {
4.         dooropen.Play();
5.     }
6. }