How do I make a sword swing?

Hello everyone. First of all, I am a noob when it comes to Unity and a lot of JavaScript and most of C#. I know some Javascript, but I am still very stuck.

I have an animation on my character’s arm and the sword which are attached. Now, all I need to figure out is how to make it so that when the left mouse button is clicked, the animation plays. Everything I try either doesn’t do anything at all, or says “there is no ‘animation’ attached to the gameobject but a script is trying to access it”. I would greatly appreciate it if the script was in Javascript, which I am more comfortable with.
Any Help?

First you need your character to have an Animator component. That component will reference what’s called an animation controller, which is long story short a state machine. There, you’ll drag and drop your animations and create transitions between them; in your case, you’ll need a trigger, which we’ll call “Swing”, which can be added on the bottom left of the window. In the script, you’ll declare a public Animator…

public var myCoolAnimator : Animator

and drag the animator component to the window that appears in the inspector after you save the script. Finally, somewhere in your script, you’ll just have to call

myCoolAnimator.SetTrigger("Swing");

and you should be all set.

I would use an Animator go in to the “Windows” Tab, You will see Animation and Animator you will want the Animation for now.