How do I play popup intro opening animation?

I have a pause popup panel in a different scene that gets loaded on top of the game scene through LoadSceneMode.Additive. I have made custom animations but whenever I try to play them I keep getting null reference error but whenever I test it in the scene with the popup panel it works.

Also if I made the time scale to 0 when the pause popup opens, how can I still keep playing the popup intro animation?

Heres what I have. I just took the area the code where I'm referencing the animation.

Code (CSharp):

1.   void Start()
2.     {
3.         _anim = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Pause").GetComponent<Animator>();
4.     }
5.  
6.     IEnumerator Intro()
7.     {
8.         _anim.SetBool("Intro",true);
9.         yield return new WaitForSeconds(clip.length);
10.         _anim.SetBool("Intro",false);
11.         yield return null;
12.     }

 

Are you sure your tag is the same as the object? Also what is the point in making it a corentine if it only runs once when you pause there should be no problem making it a normal void function.

 

Yea its tagged. The problem is the object the script is referencing is inside a different scene. How can I access the gameobject in a different scene. I'm using coroutine because for outro animation I think I need it because i want the animation to finish and then close the popup. For intro it doens't really matter your right.

 

I do not think its possible to access a gameobject in another scene from the current open scene. You could try something like instantiate the gameobject in your new scene before the animation runs.

 

Ok thanks. i'll give that a try.

 

Thanks for the help mumbot. This is what I came up with and it works.

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using System.Collections;
3. using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;
4.  
5. public class ButtonManagerPause : ButtonManager
6. {
7.     public Animator anim;
8.  
9.     void Start ()
10.     {
11.         //make it not be affected by Time.Timescale = 0
12.         anim.updateMode = AnimatorUpdateMode.UnscaledTime;
13.         anim.SetBool("Intro", true);
14.     }
15.        
16.     public new void UnloadScene(string scene)
17.     {
18.         StartCoroutine("Outro", scene);
19.     }
20.  
21.     IEnumerator Outro(string scene)
22.     {
23.         Time.timeScale = 1f;
24.         AudioListener.volume = 1;
25.         _IsPauseActive = false;
26.         anim.SetBool("Outro", true);
27.         //get the animation length of the Outro animation
28.         yield return new WaitForSeconds(anim.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo(0).length);
29.         SceneManager.UnloadScene(scene);
30.         yield return null;
31.     }
32. }
33.