newbie animation question

Hi,

Heres some background on the problem.

I have the earth tutorial from Cheetah 3D as my game object. It is a child of an empty game object to keep it from moving when the animation starts.

I have another empty game object that has a GUI script.
Just trying to make a play button that plays the animation.

Anyway, when I click the play button, nothing happens.
I don't think the problem is with the GUI part of the code, but rather how I'm accessing the animation object.

TIA

Here's the code:

Code (csharp):

1. var hSliderValue : float = 0.0;
2. var showControls = true;
3. var earth : GameObject;
4.  
5. function OnGUI () {
6.     if(showControls){
7.         showControls = GUI.Toggle (Rect (25,100, 120, 30), showControls, "Hide Controls");
8.         hSliderValue = GUI.HorizontalSlider (Rect (25, 25, 200, 30), hSliderValue, 0.0, 100.0);
9.         var line : String;
10.         line = "";
11.         line += hSliderValue;
12.         GUI.Label (Rect (25, 40, 100, 30), line);
13.         if(GUI.Button(Rect(50,60,50,30),"Play")){
14.             print(Time.frameCount);
15.             earth.animation.Play("idle");
16.         }
17.         if(GUI.Button(Rect(100,60,50,30),"Stop")){
18.             print(Time.frameCount);
19.             earth.animation.Stop();
20.         }
21.     }else{
22.         showControls = GUI.Toggle (Rect (25,25, 120, 30), showControls, "Show Controls");
23.     }
24. }

 

After a good night's sleep I got it figured out.


here is the code that worked:

Code (csharp):

1. var hSliderValue : float = 0.0;
2. var showControls = true;
3. var earth : GameObject;
4.  
5. function OnGUI () {
6.     if(showControls){
7.         showControls = GUI.Toggle (Rect (25,100, 120, 30), showControls, "Hide Controls");
8.         hSliderValue = GUI.HorizontalSlider (Rect (25, 25, 200, 30), hSliderValue, 0.0, 100.0);
9.         var line : String;
10.         line = "";
11.         line += hSliderValue;
12.         GUI.Label (Rect (25, 40, 100, 30), line);
13.         if(GUI.Button(Rect(50,60,50,30),"Play")){
14.             print(Time.frameCount);
15.             earth.animation.Play();
16.         }
17.         if(GUI.Button(Rect(100,60,50,30),"Stop")){
18.             print(Time.frameCount);
19.             earth.animation.Stop();
20.         }
21.     }else{
22.         showControls = GUI.Toggle (Rect (25,25, 120, 30), showControls, "Show Controls");
23.     }
24. }