Animating a UI Menu
Hi
I have a menu with the "Mouse Over" Appear type, and when the menu is activated, I want to play an animation that's part of the UI. So I created an Object: Animate action and assigned it to the ActionList when turn on field, but it doesn’t trigger. However, if I manually play the animation in the scene, it works.
Is there a proper way to trigger an animation that's part of a UI (Menu)?
Just for context, this animation isn’t meant to play every time—only occasionally, like when something is unlocked.
This is my UI structure:
Canvas
├── Panel
│ ├── Button (Assigned as the Button element in the Menu)
├── Parent GameObject (Contains Animator Component)
│ ├── Image 1
│ ├── Image 2
Thank you so much!
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Comments
Is the Animate Action properly recording the Constant ID of the Animator object? It may need a moment to initialise - try preceding it with an Engine: Wait Action of -1 seconds.
If you want to animate a Menu when it turns on, you don't need to rely on Actions - instead, set the Menu's Transition type property to either Custom Animation States or Custom Animation Blend. This will affect an Animator attached to the root.