How to fix animation not playing in Godot 4

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1

I’m using Godot 4.x and I’m facing an issue where my animation is not playing when I try to trigger it.

I have set up an AnimationPlayer and created the animations correctly, but when I run the scene and press the input key, nothing happens.

What I expected:

The animation should start playing when I press the assigned key.

What actually happens:

Nothing plays, and there is no error in the output.

My setup:

  • Godot version: 4.x
  • Using AnimationPlayer node
  • Animation name is correct
  • Input action is already defined in Input Map

if Input.is_action_just_pressed(“attack”):
$AnimationPlayer.play(“attack”)

What I already tried:

  • Checked animation name spelling
  • Verified AnimationPlayer node path
  • Recreated animation
  • Checked Input Map settings

But still the animation does not play.

Can anyone help me figure out what I’m missing?

2

Can you share more of your code? Where do you call this if statement?

3

try using _input function and check if input is pressed - it should work as just pressed

4

I was just playing around with an input key command and nothing happened until I clicked on the window with the mouse. It’s like it wasn’t in focus or something. I am using linux right now so I don’t know if that had something to do with it.