Unity 3d show specific frame of animation

Question

I'm trying new unity 3d options for 2d games. I'm trying to create background that changes depending on actions i made. So if i press button one i get sprite one as background and if two i get sprite two. Since I have 32 options, I figure out the best way would be to have an Animator, that changes frame depending on button click. So i created animator and animation. But the problem is I can't set time to where to stop animation to show selected frame.

I'm trying like that:

Animator ani=background.GetComponent<Animator>();
ani.animation["field_back_anim"].time=0.5f;
ani.speed=0;

But it fails at second line with that error:

MissingComponentException: There is no 'Animation' attached to the "background" game object, but a script is trying to access it.
You probably need to add a Animation to the game object "background". Or your script needs to check if the component is attached before using it.

However if I do no code the animation just plays trough all 16 frames. So i gues there is animation after all.

On the background GameObject I have 2 components first is sprite renderer and second is animator. When I open animator in Animator view i see there green rectangle saying Any state and yellow one with "field_back_anim". I don't get what i'm doing wrong.

I will also except any other solution that does the following.

Thanks!

Solution

The animator component is used to control transition between many animation clips. If you're going to playing an animation clip on a gameobject, an animation component is proper, not the animator. Remove the animator and add an animation component to your background gameobject in the inspector. If you set animation property to field_back_anim, your gameobject will animate well. Manipulation codes should be changed like below.

Animation ani = background.GetComponent<Animation>();
ani["field_back_anim"].time = 0.5f;
ani["field_back_anim"].speed = 0;

Comments

[gabrjan]

That is a solution, but I would steel like to know if it's possible in the way I started it. Thanks!