How to manage animations?

Question

I'm using C# and I'm currently building a 3rd person view game. I have a 3D character model with the animations in frames so I have to cut the animations by frame

The problem is I currently have 5 animations (idle, run, walk, punch, jump) and this is my code

void Update () {
    if (Input.GetAxis("Horizontal") != 0 || Input.GetAxis("Vertical") != 0){
        //play run animation
    } else {
        if (motion.x != 0 || motion.z != 0){
            motion.x = 0;
            motion.z = 0;
        }
                    //play idle anim
    }

    if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) && controller.isGrounded){
    //play jump anim
    }

    if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.P)){
        //play punch anim
    }

    if (!controller.isGrounded){
        //play jump anim
    }

    vertVelo -= gravity * Time.deltaTime;
    motion.y = vertVelo;
    this.controller.Move(motion * Time.deltaTime);
}

The problem occurs when I press P to make the character punch. It seems the idle animation in the update function is being called so that the punch animation doesn't have time to play.

So, what's the solution? are there any animation managing technique or should I use delay?

this if statement has no use: if (motion.x != 0 || motion.z != 0). You can just as well always set motion.x and motion.z to 0 — Toad

strobe strobe · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-16T11:57:38

You may block idle animation while punch is playing (but may be it's not best approach):

bool isPunchPlaying = false;

void Update () {
    //... 
    if (!isPunchPlaying) {
        // Play idle anim
    }
    // ...
    if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.P)){
        //play punch anim
        isPunchPlaying = true;
        StartCoroutine(WaitThenDoPunch(animation["punch"].length));
    }
    // ...
}

IEnumerator WaitThenDoPunch(float time) {
    yield return new WaitForSeconds(time);
    isPunchPlaying = false;
}

How to manage animations?

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