Mecanim - bug or am i doing wrong?

Hi

I'm very new to Unity (using 4.3) and have hit a snag with animation. The problem is I cannot tell if this is a bug in Unity (as it feels a bit like one) or I'm doing something wrong.


My simple aim is to be able to control the speed of an animation state via code. So as an example I have a spinning cube sequence and I want to slow it down over time but if the player clicks it it speeds up.

So I dug around the forums and discovered that with the animator controller you cannot specify speed for an individual state.

However I found a workaround using blend trees which did work!!! I created a blend tree on my state and used the same animation clip but changed the threshold and speed. I set this upto a float and it worked!!!!

However as soon as i started to add another transition to control another aspect the original code no longer functioned. No matter what I do now in the project as in delete the animation and controllers and do afresh it is still broken?

Anyone any ideas on why this would occur?


I have pasted my code below...bu tlike i say this was working great until I went in to add a new transition.

Code (csharp):

1. #pragma strict
2.  
3. private var cube:GameObject;
4. private var cubeAni:Animator;
5.  
6.  
7. public var cubeSpeed:float = 3;
8. public var cubeMaxSpeed:float = 4;
9. private var speedBoost:float = 0.5;
10.  
11. function Start () {
12.  
13. cube = GameObject.FindWithTag("cube");
14. cubeAni = cube.GetComponent("Animator");
15.  
16.  
17. }
18.  
19. function Update () {
20.  
21.    
22.     cubeAni.SetFloat("Speed", cubeSpeed);
23.    
24.    
25.     if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
26.          {
27.          
28.            //Create physics2d raycast to detect location of click
29.            var hitm : RaycastHit2D = Physics2D.Raycast(Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition), Vector2.zero);
30.        
31.          
32.            if(hitm.collider.gameObject.tag == "cube")
33.            {
34.                cubeSpeed = cubeSpeed + speedBoost;
35.                cubeAni.SetFloat("Speed", cubeSpeed);
36.                
37.                Debug.Log("clicked the cube" + cubeAni.speed);
38.            }
39.          }
40.  
41.  
42. }

thanks in advance

ade

 

Ok I think I have solved this

It was how i was trying to access the Animator component so changed:

cube = GameObject.FindWithTag("cube");

cubeAni = cube.GetComponent("Animator")


TO:


cubeAni = GameObject.Find("cube").GetComponent(Animator);


and it seems to work again