Play animation ONLY once?

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Hello Unity pros ;)

Is there a easy way of playing a animation only ONCE? Like som thing like:

animation.PlayOneShot("");

I know you cant do the above example, but it was just an example. I could put something together in a few lines of code so it only would play the animation once, but if there is a easy way of doing so, that would be awesome. ;)

Thanks, you awesome people ;)

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Answer by Bunny83 · Jan 28, 2011 at 07:59 PM

Just use animation.Play() or animation.CrossFade() as usual but first set the wrapmode of your clip to WrapMode.Once. If you set the wrapmode in the inspector to "once" you don't need the first line.

animation["AnimationName"].wrapMode = WrapMode.Once;
animation.Play("AnimationName");

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FLASHDENMARK · Jan 28, 2011 at 08:10 PM 0

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Thank, you very much :)

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Answer by ShawnFeatherly · Feb 10, 2014 at 08:59 AM

If you've created an animation using the Animator window, find where you saved the *.anim file using your Project hierarchy window and select it. Then uncheck Loop Time in the inspector.

Loop Time property set to only play the animation once

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Kiichi · Feb 24, 2014 at 01:40 PM 0

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It doesn't work if you use AnimatorController.

Jeste · Apr 28, 2016 at 10:32 AM 0

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This solved partily my problem. I had on one side, ( checked loop-time ), but on other ( wrap-mode set to be once ). With this it loops forever, but when i ( uncheck this loop time ), and ( wrap-mode is set to once ), it only once goes. But when i set ( wrap-mode to loop ) and ( unchec loop-time ), it again play only once. How i can change this loop time in script? I ask this because i open similar thread, take a look if u can, maybe it give u more clearification... http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/how-to-change-wrapmode-of-animator.400736/ How can i play once first animation, and then smoothly transit to play second to infinity? I have looked into CrossFade but it just delay?

Zagaz · Feb 15, 2017 at 12:50 AM 0

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That was the best answer! I spend some good hours trying to figure it out how to do it, and your answer was straight to the point!

Thanks for the help!

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Answer by vickygroups · Apr 30, 2014 at 05:41 AM

Shawn's solution worked for me. The trick is not to select the game object, but rather the file that it made to control the animation. It's in your asset folder and called whatever file name you called it.

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Answer by joshmann971 · Jan 28, 2015 at 11:57 PM

Hey guys, if the wrap mode "Once" doesn't work for you, I set it to "Clamp Forever" and it worked for me (just some doors opening once a boolean is true) hope this helps you with your door problems! Don'f forget to go in the debug window on the actual "animationname".anim file and set "Animation Type" to 1

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Answer by GameMechanics · Jul 19, 2015 at 06:13 PM

I created a one time and then go away piece of code that may help.

 using UnityEngine;
 using System.Collections;
 
 public class Explosion : MonoBehaviour
 {
     private Animator animator;
 
     void Start()
     {
         animator = GetComponent<Animator>() as Animator;
     }
     
 
     void Update()
     {
         AnimatorStateInfo asi = animator.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo(0);
 
         if (!asi.IsName("Explosion") || asi.normalizedTime >= 1)
         {
             Destroy(gameObject);
         }
     }
 }

My GameObject has a SpriteRenderer and an Animator. I checked Loop off on the animation. I hope that helps.

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