How can I make a multiple cloned prefab with animation working?

Dear lovely community,

I'am creating a 2d game and I would like to add a floating damage pop up text every time I click on a certain object. For this I clone a prefab with a text popup animation every time I click on the screen. The prefab is put into the game as intended however the animation isn't working. When I put only one animation into the screen it works. I don't simply don't know why it isn't working... So how can I clone a prefab with an animation and make it working with other animations of the same prefab already running? This is driving me crazy and some help would awesome!

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2.  
3. public class Enemy : MonoBehaviour {
4.     public int health;
5.     void Start()
6.     {
7.         FloatingTextController.Initialize();
8.     }
9.  
10.     public virtual void TakeDamage(int amount)
11.     {
12.         FloatingTextController.CreateFloatingText(amount.ToString(), transform);
13.         Debug.LogFormat("{0} was dealt {1} damage", gameObject.name, amount);
14.         if ((health -= amount) <= 0)
15.             Die();
16.     }
17.  
18.  
19.     public virtual void Die()
20.     {
21.         Debug.Log(gameObject.name + " has died.");
22.     }
23.  
24.     void OnMouseDown()
25.     {
26.         this.TakeDamage(Random.Range(0, 100));
27.     }
28.  
29. }

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using System.Collections;
3. using UnityEngine.UI;
4.  
5. public class FloatingText : MonoBehaviour {
6.     public Animator animator;
7.     private Text damageText;
8.  
9.     void OnEnable()
10.     {
11.         AnimatorClipInfo[] clipInfo = animator.GetCurrentAnimatorClipInfo(0);
12.         Debug.Log(clipInfo.Length);
13.         //Destroy(gameObject, clipInfo[0].clip.length);
14.         damageText = animator.GetComponent<Text>();
15.     }
16.  
17.     public void SetText(string text)
18.     {
19.         damageText.text = text;
20.     }
21. }

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using System.Collections;
3.  
4. public class FloatingTextController : MonoBehaviour {
5.     private static FloatingText popupText;
6.     private static GameObject canvas;
7.  
8.     public static void Initialize()
9.     {
10.         canvas = GameObject.Find("Canvas");
11.         if (!popupText)
12.             popupText = Resources.Load<FloatingText>("Prefabs/PopupTextParent");
13.     }
14.  
15.     public static void CreateFloatingText(string text, Transform location)
16.     {
17.         FloatingText instance = Instantiate(popupText);
18.         Vector2 screenPosition = Camera.main.WorldToScreenPoint(new Vector2(location.position.x + Random.Range(-.2f, .2f), location.position.y + Random.Range(-.2f, .2f)));
19.         //Vector2 screenPosition = new Vector2(Input.mousePosition.x, Input.mousePosition.y);
20.         instance.transform.SetParent(canvas.transform, false);
21.         instance.transform.position = screenPosition;
22.         instance.SetText(text);
23.         instance.GetComponent<Animator>().Play("PopupText");
24.     }
25. }
26.  

 

Could create all needed popups at scene initialization to cache them, then simply use pooling approach, to grab relevant 'spare' popups. And when done, 'put back' to pooling cache / mark as spare.

 

The problem is, that my game is gonna be some kind of clicker game. So I simply don't know how often I have to click and the popup text itself will change as well.

 

It dosent matter. Instead of copying (instantiating popup GameObject?), you just use reuse existing one, which is not used. Similar technique, as for shooting many bullets.