How do I animate a Sprite3d?

[fresh warren]

are you changing the animation in code?

can you show it?

[hollow valve]

Link to aforementioned tutorial, by the way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ZWNtx5_Xc&list=PLY1jY0hbmKxAya3z6YBuQ3gGNB6Sg137r&index=2

[fresh warren]

what does your AnimationTree looks like?

[hollow valve]

Like this?

[fresh warren]

you use "Walk"

but is lowercase here

[hollow valve]

If there are other ways to animate it, I'm open to suggestions.

[fresh warren]

the string should match the state name exactly

[hollow valve]

I copied it from the Inspector, but I'll see if changing it works.

[fresh warren]

the inspector will make it TitleCase

I think this is what matters

you can use Blend3 for idle-walk-run logic.

is a bit more advanced

but is cleaner

but I think it needs to be a different tree type

[hollow valve]

Changing to lowercase removed the errors, but the animation still doesn't play.

[fresh warren]

click the connections and check the inspector

change mode to enabled

do you have many more animations?

[hollow valve]

Yes, but only three are available so far.

[hollow valve]

Done.

[fresh warren]

is it working now?

[hollow valve]

Nope.

[fresh warren]

it might be because your are calling travel every frame

I suggest you create a StateMachine to check the current state before changing the animation

or even a variable to store the current animation

you can create a funtion to simplify your code

var _current_anim:String

func play_animation(anim:String):
  if _current_anim != anim:
      anim_tree.travel(anim)
      _current_anim = anim

[hollow valve]

Frankly, I didn't understand how to do that and was afraid I'd annoy the guy talking to me, so I just redid it with AnimatedSprite3D as opposed to AnimationTree.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1162333266171408426/1204470012010696734/2024-02-07_00-52-47.mp4

It still is a bit scuffed, but it is working now at least.

Thanks for your patience. @fresh warren