Interpolate as a timer for "Change Image" and "Animation" problem

DrGlickert

I have two actors;

One is a block, the other is a gold bar.

The block has a Rule that when self.changeimage is 1 then Change Image to image1.png and Interpolate self.changeimage to 2 OTHERWISE when self.changeimage is 2 then Change Image to image2.png and Interpolate self.changeimage to 1.

This works great! The image goes back and forth between image1 and image2 and it adds a cool effect in the game.

In my gold bar actor I have 14 images that when animated it gives the appearance of the gold bar being shinny.

I literally have the EXACT setup for the gold bar, but instead of the Change Image, I have an Animate behavior. The gold bar only "shines" once. Why is this not working for me?

(I can get this to work with timers, but I don't want to use timers (my game is processor heavy and really need to save on timers))

gyroscope

For your Animate, a timer set to Every...until suchandsuch is false perhaps... is your only option, sorry to say. Hopefully adding a couple of timers to your scenes won't burden the processing too badly. :-)

DrGlickert

I have a lot of craziness in my game. Flying actors, lots of spawn and destroys, I've eliminated almost all of the constrain attributes and most of the timers. I just don't want to keep adding them and want to work around them as much as possible.

Thanks Gyro!