Pausing an animation

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I don't see a straightforward way to pause an animation. Presumably I first have to log the current frame when I click a button or press a key, and then start the animation again from that frame.

The question being really, how do I get the current frame of an animation? Or is there a better way to pause an animation?

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Answer by TheDemiurge · Feb 17, 2011 at 11:37 AM

AnimationState

From the docs under Animation: (no example under AnimationState)

// Make all animations in this character play at half speed
for (var state : AnimationState in animation) {
    state.speed = 0.5;
}

so speed = 0 will pause it :)

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pauldstewart · Feb 17, 2011 at 11:40 AM 0

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Thank you......

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Answer by Setsuki · Nov 26, 2012 at 10:46 PM

speed = 0 doesn't work in my case, and I have many animations thaat can be playing. In my case, I litteraly want my character to freeze, so I simply used

 animation.enabled=false;

Worked like a charm.

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petey · Jan 02, 2014 at 01:19 AM 0

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Awesome thanks for posting this! Way simpler than the crazy stuff I was trying to do :)

Wessels · Dec 15, 2014 at 09:28 AM 0

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When using animation.enabled=true will it start the animantion again or continue where it was stopped?

georgepiva · May 19, 2015 at 02:48 PM 0

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@Wessels The answer is yes. It will continue from where it stopped.

BEFaughnan · Jul 07, 2016 at 08:28 PM 3

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When I use this method the animation skips ahead where it would have been when turned back to true. Is anyone else experiencing this?

Brumpet · Jul 30, 2016 at 09:49 PM 0

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Just used my one and only rep point on this, dont know how to get them, and probably will never get another. Seriously, this works so well, ;D;D;D

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Answer by Hritik-Mahirrao · Jul 01, 2015 at 05:44 PM

You can use 'enabled' property to stop/pause animations

animator.enabled = false;

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Answer by Madhur26 · Jun 26, 2017 at 07:57 AM

using System.Collections; using System.Collections.Generic; using UnityEngine;

public class pausescript : MonoBehaviour {

 public bool paused;
 // Use this for initialization
 void Start () {
     paused = false;
 }
 
 // Update is called once per frame
 void Update () {
     
 }

 public void Pause(){
         paused = !paused;

     if (paused) {
         Time.timeScale = 0;

     } else if (!paused) {
         Time.timeScale = 1;

     }

 }

}

This worked for me.

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remingtonspaz · Apr 04, 2019 at 03:16 AM 1

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This is incorrect. This pauses the whole game ins$$anonymous$$d of just the animation.

highpockets remingtonspaz · Apr 04, 2019 at 08:25 AM 0

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If the animation is on its own layer, setting the weight to 0.0f is an effective approach and also lerping to zero can have a smoother effect.

remingtonspaz highpockets · Apr 13, 2019 at 04:07 PM 1

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Sure, but I don’t see what that has to do with this answer?

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