animation-event-trigger-rename.md

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title: "`AnimationEventTrigger::animation_player` has been renamed to `AnimationEventTrigger::target`"
pull_requests: [21593]

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This field and its docs strongly suggested that it would point to an entity holding an AnimationPlayer, but that actually depends on how the event was registered.

• If you used AnimationClip::add_event, the field really did point to the AnimationPlayer

• But if you used AnimationClip::add_event_to_target, this field instead pointed to an AnimationTargetId

To make this more clear, the field was renamed to target and the docs surrounding it improved.