Pausing animation/movement of a Clone (instantiated enemy)

I'm trying to implement a simple pause button and have been able to pause all animations and motions of my various characters in the game except the clones.

I instantiate enemies a few seconds after loading level and they produce clones with names like "Orc_Mage(Clone)", etc.

To find the game objects to "pause" I do this:

Code (JavaScript):

1. orc_pikeman-clone = GameObject.Find("orc_pikeman(Clone)").transform;

Then I try to pause it's animations with this:

Code (JavaScript):

1. orc_pikeman_Clone.SendMessage("buttonPauseHandler", 0);

This technique works fine for all enemies except the ones that are instantiated and produce a clone.

Do I have to do something special to pause the animation/movements of an instantiated clone?

Thanks!

 

I am not sure if this is the problem : but when you are trying to find the object the variable name is :"orc_pikeman-clone" when you are trying to access it the name is : orc_pikeman_Clone.

 

Thanks ahaykai!

Good catch but this code I posted got accidently changed by me.

I have this variable defined in the script:

Code (JavaScript):

1. private var orc_pikeman_Clone : Transform;

That typo isn't in my code so that isn't the problem I don't think.

Code (JavaScript):

1. orc_pikeman_Clone = GameObject.Find("orc_pikeman(Clone)").transform;

Code (JavaScript):

1.     orc_pikeman_Clone.SendMessage("buttonPauseHandler", 0);
2.  

I should probably add that buttonPauseHandler does this:

Code (JavaScript):

1. function buttonPauseHandler()
2. {
3. Debug.Log( "buttonPauseHandler - EnemyOcrPikeman");
4.     animation.enabled=false;
5.  
6.     movementBeforePause.x = movement.x;
7.     movementBeforePause.y = movement.y;
8.     movementBeforePause.z = movement.z;
9.  
10.  
11.     movement.x = 0.0f;
12.     movement.y = 0.0f;
13.     movement.z = 0.0f;
14.  
15. }

 

No one has ever encountered this issue?! Seriously?

 

Do you have multiple enemies with the same name ( i.e multiple enemy_name(clone) ) ?

 

Yes I spawn clones throught the game. Is that bad?

 

Code (csharp):

1. orc_pikeman_Clone = GameObject.Find("orc_pikeman(Clone)").transform;

would only find one of the clones, you could use tags, and tag all enemies as "enemy" and use GameObject.FindObjectsWithTag or you could change the .name of each clone so it's GameObject.Find("orc_pikeman_" + count); and go through all enemies

 

Thanks image28!

So I changed it around and can find all GameObjects with a tag of "enemies"

Code (JavaScript):

1. var allEnemiesGO = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("Enemies");

Not sure how to pause a GameObject's animation though.

I tried

Code (JavaScript):

1. allEnemiesGO.animation.enable = false;

" 'animation' is not a member of 'UnityEngine.GameObject[]'."

 

FindGameObjectsWithTag returns an array of gameobjects.... don't use javascript but in csharp we would do something like this.... ( haven't tested this code and it's in C# )

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. GameObject[] allEnemiesGO = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("Enemies");
3.  
4. foreach( GameObject enemy in allEnemiesGO )
5. {
6. enemy.animation.enable=false;
7. }
8.  

 

Just tested that code... works properly.... again C#

 

Nice! That makes sense now. Thanks image28!

Yes, I prefer c# but having to use js currently. I'll try to convert it ...