Start animation at random frame

This is for a simple sliding animation for my UI. I just want one of the images to begin its animation in the middle of its loop.

In the old script, it would be something like animation["state"].time = whatever.

But this no longer works

I've looked, but can't seem to find how to do this with Unity5. Can someone help?

Thanks!

 

Maybe this can help you? Just found it on the API, where they say, you should use AnimationState for full control?
http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AnimationState.html
http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AnimationState-time.html

 

I tried that. It doesn't work. Gives me an error if I just type it.

 

Could you paste the error?

 

No. I am poor. I have no internet at home, so I have to pose my questions while I'm at work, then go home to test the answers... then wait until the next day to say it didn't work.

But in that particular example, it's not a runtime error. AnimationState doesn't have a "time". It also says that AnimationState is depreciated, and that I should use something like GetAnimatorContentInfo (or something like that). I've tried a thousand different things with that and all it ever has is one item in an array called ContentInfo... or AnimatorInfo... which I can't seem to do anything with (it too does not have "time").

 

Oh wait, do you use the latest version of unity!? I hate the almost exact problem with animationstate, and it got solved by just downloading the latest Unity3D 5.0.2f or something. Just go on the website and download the latest download assistant

 

you can pass the normalized time (i.e. 0 to 1) you want the animation to play from as the optional third parameter of Animator.Play(...)

 

@OP: if you're using Unity 4, don't use the documentation at http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/, as that's for Unity 5. Instead, open Unity and select Help -> Scripting reference. That'll give you the same docs, but for your version of Unity.

 

I'm using Unity 5, just not sure its the most recent version of 5.

 

Ah! It worked!
For those who may need it:

Code (CSharp):

1. thisAnim.Play("Smoke", -1, Random.Range(0.0f, 1.0f));

(thisAnim is my animator, and Smoke is the name of the animation state).

Thanks!

 

Thanks for posting the solution!

 

Thanks so much! This still works in 2018.2.2f1!

 

I'm using 2018.3.0f2 and it does not seem to be working.

 

You can now use something like:

Code (CSharp):

1. panelFullUI[animationName].time = time;
2.             panelFullUI.clip = panelFullUI[animationName].clip;
3.             panelFullUI.Sample();
4.             panelFullUI.Play();

 

I just figured out what was happening - I was instantiating an object and thisAnim.Play("Smoke", -1, Random.Range(0.0f, 1.0f)); was in the Start() function. I switched it to OnEnbable() and got the results I was looking for.