So I’m working on my first game using unity, it’s a simple floppy bird re-creation, I follower a video, but the video didn’t include how to animate your characters, thus I wanted to learn how to animate it myself

I just started to add an animation when the bird flies (after hitting the spacebar), and as I mentioned it would only be triggered after hitting the spacebar so I used a Boolean in the transition, and used the following script to connect the animation to the actual thing

this is the script I used

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class BirdScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    // inaisly the script is not aware of the things we added into the object
    //we need to make those conctions using a refrance
    public Rigidbody2D BirdRigidBody;
    public float flapStentgh;
    public LogicScript logic;
    public bool AliveBird = true;
    public Animator BirdAnimator;
    //after making the varible go back to unity and drag the rigid body in 

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        logic = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("logic").GetComponent<LogicScript>();
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space)==true &&AliveBird) {
            BirdRigidBody.velocity = Vector2.up * flapStentgh;
            BirdAnimator.SetBool("flapping", true);
        }
        if (transform.position.y <-17)
        {
            logic.GameOver();
            AliveBird=false;
        }
    }
    private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
    {
        logic.GameOver();
        AliveBird = false;
    }
}

the comments are my notes during the tutorial so don’t pay so much attention to it

the problem that accrued is that now after I hit the spacebar the game pauses, it doesn’t crash, just poses , I tried to look into some keyboard shortcuts, but found nothing

and the once I removed the BirdAnimator.SetBool("flapping", true); from my script it went back to functioning normally(without the animations of course), so I assume the problem is there

I hope they’re would be someone who can help me, or provide an explanation of why this is happening

Thank you very much!