Unity Genrics Animation controller

Question

Hey guys working on a Genric Animation controller,

Public Animator anim

Public void GenAnim <t>(string "name", t val)
{
   If (t is float)
   {
       anim.setfloat ("name",  val)
   }

If (t is bool)
    {
     anim.settrigger("name",  val)
     }

If (t is int)
     {
     anim.setint ("name",  val)
     }
}

The issue was, you cant pass a t into anim.set functions and i couldn't work out how to cast it or get around it, i feel like there is an easy fix that I'm missing Please let me know if you have any ideas

Cheers

Answer 1

Generics can't really do this in a clean way, but @Rup's suggestion of method overloads would work:

public Animator anim;

public void SetParameter(string name, bool value)
{
    anim.SetBool(name, value);
}

public void SetParameter(string name, float value)
{
    anim.SetFloat(name, value);
}

public void SetParameter(string name, int value)
{
    anim.SetInteger(name, value);
}

That way calling SetParameter will choose the correct version based on the parameter you provide.

You could also have SetParameter(string name) without a value to call SetTrigger, but there is no GetTrigger (it's ResetTrigger instead). It's up to you how you want to handle that.