Why Won’t My Dialogue Box Animations Play?

I have an Issue in unity and I am turning desperate.

I'm running into an issue with my dialogue system in Unity where the "DialogueBoxOpen" and "CloseDialogueBox" animations aren't playing, even though the Animator clearly transitions into the correct states (though It looks weird in the Animator). I’ve confirmed this with debug logs, and I can see the Animator switching states at the right times.


\- I’m using "animator.CrossFade()", tried a few other ways to write it but also didn't work.

\- The "DialogueBoxParent" GameObject is active when the animations should play.

\- Root Motion is disabled.

\- I’ve double-checked the Animator Controller setup - the states and transitions all look correct.

\- When I play the game and go into the Dialogue, the animation bar (in the animator) is like one tenth blue and the rest is grey. No clue why it's doing that.

Despite all that, the animations just don’t visually play. I’m wondering if this could be related to:

\- Incorrect animation clip settings?

\- Some kind of conflict with another noscript or setting I’m overlooking?




Has anyone run into a similar issue or have suggestions for other things I should check? (I need to note that I am a beginner and I have never encountered this issue before.)


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