There is no animation with the name.... error, but the animations referred to no longer exist.

BingBong

I have a very small scene causing this problem, I keep getting the message in red in the output window, well, 3 lines like this (of deleted animations I didnt want) which flashes up then dissapears when run.

There is no animation with the name 'insert name of deleted animation here!'

Googling the message kind of points to a bug maybe? It looks like others have had this problem since version 3 across updated versions. (Im currently using 3.4)

The scene is a node2D with an AnimatedSprite and AnimationPlayer node, playing a 5 frame animation, to start on running the scene.

The script in its entireity....

extends Node2D

func _ready():
	$AnimationPlayer.play("Cocoon_1B")

Thats it, As its such a small scene, this is fixable by remaking the scene from scratch (only takes a couple of minutes), but my question is, where the hell is godot picking up the names of animations I deleted to tell me "there is no animation with the name 'blah blah blah'". I deleted them, so surely theres now no reference to them and they are not called to run anywhere in the script or the inspector.

Red errors arnt good right?

xyz

Did you check AnimationPlayer's autoplay property? Maybe it's there.

BingBong

It seems to be coming from the AnimatedSprite node, if I add another animation in the sprtite frames there, chuck a few frames into it, then IMMEDIATELY delete it, I get another additional error as it now can find that animation either.

The red errors really do only flash up on the output window quickly on running the scene, but theres this error I get in the debug window...

E 0:00:00.217 set_animation: There is no animation with name 'New Anim'. <C++ Error> Condition "frames->get_animation_names().find(p_animation) == -1" is true. <C++ Source> scene/2d/animated_sprite.cpp:630 @ set_animation()

Interesting, I just tried it in v 3.3.4 and it doesnt happen. Should I be reporting this as a bug? (no idea how to do that btw!!) Its not breaking anything, but red errors generally mean it was me that screwed something up :)

Megalomaniak

If I understand correctly...

This is probably not how you should be using AnimationPlayer. Rather than adding and removing animations/frames from it, instead create/duplicate a new AnimationPlayer, modify it then add it to tree and remove the old one from the tree then free it.