When and why to use Animation.Play() ?

Hey guys!
Is there any disadvantage of using Animator.Play() ? Instead of using triggers,booleans why can't i simply use Animator.Play() ?

 

Triggers and booleans are for manipulating the state machine of an animator.

Animation.play and Animator.play are also different things. But i believe animator.play pretty much does an end-run around the state machine and forces a particular animation to play directly. It won't obey the rules of transitions etc like the other methods do.

 

Animation.Play will simply play an animation, but if you use an Animator to control your animations instead then you can set-up transitions between each animation state and it will smoothly blend between them.

 

One note: It's important to recognize the difference between the Animation and Animator classes. Animator is the modern system, and Animation is the legacy system, no longer maintained. If you're not working on a project that dates back to 2014ish, don't use Animation.

 

Hey I changed the question....Thanks

 

Nobody is stopping you. You just won't get the benefits of the state machine controlling transitions etc.