How to achieve calling animation.play("idle")?

[XX4free25XX]

Since animation nodes are very powerful, they can make up for the plugin's inability to call custom functions or subsystems.

[zaknafean]

You may be able to pull this off with the Call node. There is a bit of set up to make it happen, as the tool isn't explicitly trying to make this use case easier, but you can build around it to accomplish just about anything you want.

Call node lets you call a function and pass arguments to an autoload global script. If that script knows where the enemies are, then its pretty easy to do. Here are some steps to get that done.

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The keys points.

1. Set up your autoload global script
2. Set up a function that knows how to get to the node you wan t to interact with. (Using groups is a reasonable way to accomplish this)

There are other ways you can accomplish this, via custom events and the like, but this is the most out of the box way to get it done.