How to trigger animation on specific prefabs added to the scene

Hi,

(structure)
I have a cherry prefab with a cherry script inside and I'm dragging it to put in the scene
I have a PlayerController in Player Object that will collect the cherry object in the scene

(scenario)
if the player collides with the cherry object I'm calling the _player.IsItemPickUp() method in the PlayerController and since the cherry is observing the _player.IsItemPickUp, it processes the PlayerPickupCollectibles() method. My problem is the animation happens in all cherry prefabs added to the scene and not on the specific cherry prefabs that the player collides.

I am using an observer pattern and as much as possible I don't want my class to be dependent on other classes that's why I want to implement the cherry animation in cherry class.

Code (CSharp):

1. public class Cherry : MonoBehaviour
2. {
3.     private Animator _anim;
4.     [SerializeField] SubPlayer _player;
5.  
6.     void Awake()
7.     {
8.         _anim = GetComponent<Animator>();
9.         StartObserving();
10.     }
11.  
12.     void StartObserving()
13.     {
14.         _player.ItemPickUp += PlayerPickupCollectibles;
15.     }
16.  
17.     void StopObserving()
18.     {
19.         _player.ItemPickUp -= PlayerPickupCollectibles;
20.     }
21.  
22.  
23.     void PlayerPickupCollectibles()
24.     {
25.         _anim.SetTrigger("CHERRY_PICKUP");
26.     }
27. }

Player Controller code Snippets

Code (CSharp):

1. private void DetectCollider(GameObject collider)
2.     {
3.         if (collider.gameObject.CompareTag("Collectable"))
4.         {
5.             _player.IsItemPickUp();
6.         }
7.     }

 

I would turn it around and put a script on the cherry that you can call to say "You got collected."

To generalize it further, you can use interfaces and implement something like an

ICollectable

Code (csharp):

1. public interface ICollectable
2. {
3.   void YouWereCollected();
4. }

Any collectable could implement that, and the player would see what they hit and ask if it has an ICollectable. You can pass interfaces to GetComponent<>() to grab MonoBehaviors that implement that interface, then call it if it exists.

There's some cool Unity interface tutorials out on Youtube actually.

 

Thank you so much, your suggestion works