My animation only plays once.

[wanton estuary]

Every time I hit F on my keyboard, the animation only does it once and won't do it again.

Ive been trying to fix this for the past day or two

[upper spoke]

@wanton estuary its simply because you did not exit from the animation , you should have atleast 2 animation (idle , knife rotation) and when the knife rotation animation is done you play the idle animation , and i suggest if your game is not having a complicated animator controller (like you have alot of animations) then try to use transitions and triggers

here is the shape if you would use transitions , the blue arrow is the one with the trigger checked , and the white arrow dont have any parameter , so when the animation end it will directly go back to idle

that will be the code

[ebon sierra]

Please do not spoonfeed solutions

[trail bison]

We are not here to spoon-feed solutions to you but to try and help you understand a problem. Most generic issues can be googled and we encourage you to do so because knowing how to use Google is an essential skill as well!

[ebon sierra]

Invoke is also bad anyway

[upper spoke]

i was about to paste Brackeys link -

[upper spoke]

true but i am trying to keep it simple

[ebon sierra]

I get that, but teaching bad practices leads to bad habits because a beginner won't know why it's bad or why to avoid it. I don't know OP's experience, but others may be lurking or come across this post and think that Invoke is the also answer to their problem, and it spreads

[upper spoke]

@wanton estuary i suggest watching this videos so you get your head around the topic of animation and animator in unity :
1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkaysu1Z-N8&ab_channel=Brackeys
2- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tveRasxUabo&ab_channel=Jayanam
3- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKNne6PgwhQ&ab_channel=DapperDino