Triggering separate animations independently on same prefab

Hey all,

I've been struggling with this issue for a while now, and I'm hoping someone can help.

I have a little RV spherical robot that has side doors that swing open and a front panel that opens out of the front.
These are separate independent animations that I want to be able to trigger from separate key presses.


The only way I can get it to work is to have the 2nd animation (front panel) triggered when the side panel is in the default closed state, but obviously this is not what I want as I want to be able to trigger this 2nd animation irrespective of the state of the 1st animation.
See attached image.

Do I need to use layers to get this to work or do I need separate animation controllers for each animation?

Thanks in advance!

 

Got it sussed! I created a new animation layer and put the 2nd animation in there and set the weight to 1.
I had tried this before but hadn't set the weight!

Cheers