Question I need help

I need help, i'm fairly new to Unity, and i'm only 13, it's a bit complicated. I watched a tutorial on youtube on a csharp script to make zombies attack my player, my script matches the tutorial but in unity, it shows "Assets\Scripts\Zombie.cs(26,42): error CS1955: Non-invocable member 'Animation' cannot be used like a method." and "Assets\Scripts\Zombie.cs(26,21): error CS0201: Only assignment, call, increment, decrement, await, and new object expressions can be used as a statement"
Here's my code, can anyone help?

Code (CSharp):

1. public class Zombie : MonoBehaviour
2. {
3.     public GameObject Player;
4.     public float TargetDistance;
5.     public float AllowedRange = 10;
6.     public GameObject enemy;
7.     public float EnemySpeed;
8.     public int AttackTrigger;
9.     public RaycastHit shot;
10.  
11.     void Update()
12.     {
13.         transform.LookAt(Player.transform);
14.         if (Physics.Raycast(transform.position, transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.forward), out shot))
15.         {
16.             TargetDistance = shot.distance;
17.             if (TargetDistance < AllowedRange)
18.             {
19.                 EnemySpeed = 0.02f;
20.                 if (AttackTrigger == 0)
21.                 {
22.                     enemy.GetComponent < Animation().Play("Z_Walk");
23.                     transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(transform.position, Player.transform.position, EnemySpeed);
24.                 }
25.             }
26.  
27.             else
28.             {
29.                 EnemySpeed = 0f;
30.                 enemy.GetComponent < Animation().Play("Z_Idle");
31.             }
32.         }
33.     }
34. }
35.  

 

Hey i think you're just missing a '>' on line 22 (though your error message says line 26. Maybe you changed the code since then?)

Code (CSharp):

1. enemy.GetComponent<Animation>().Play("Z_Walk");

Similarly on line 30:

Code (CSharp):

1. enemy.GetComponent<Animation>().Play("Z_Idle");

I love that you're only 13 and trying to tackle game dev. Keep it up!

 

It worked! Thank you so much! I was really confused at first, and now i'm a bit embarassed for forgetting something as simple as that.

 

Those angle brackets (less than greater than) that @praetor pointed out can be confusing because even in the few lines of code above, you can see they're used in more than one way:

First line 17 uses them to ask "is target distance LESS THAN allowed range?"

And line 22 and 30 (the ones where you had the greater-than missing) means something completely different. Used in that context it means "use the flavor of

GetComponent

(which is a function) and make sure it gives me a component that is of

Animator

type". The official term for that is a "generic" or "templated" function.

That kind of dual meaning happens in a few different places in C# but soon you get so you just sorta read past it.

There are other symbols like that too. For instance dot (.) can mean decimal point, or else it can mean look up a member of a class.