Animating after a collision (noob here)

dorme1

Hello I'm working on my first game. I'm trying to have one actor kind of shrink/compress when another actor hits it. (think bouncing ball on a spring) I'd like the "spring" to compress when the ball hits it. I set up a rule that when spring collided with ball to play the compression animation but when the collision happens it just flashes an image of the animation. I'm sure I'm going about this entirely wrong. I'm trying to think how to tell gs "once the collision occur" where I think it's "when the collision occurs. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

RedlerTech

Create a boolean attribute called collision at false

Make A rule: When Actor1 collides with Actor2 change game.collision to true

Make A rule: When game.collision = true, animate

Matt

dorme1

Awesome! That works great! But it only does the animation once ( the ball may keep bouncing on the spring until input is received) what am I missing?

AppsRacK

dorme1 said:
Awesome! That works great! But it only does the animation once ( the ball may keep bouncing on the spring until input is received) what am I missing?

you need to reset the bool after it trigger that way it will trigger again when the ball hits it.

dorme1

Ok. How do I go about that? I tried resetting it to false but it didn't work.

AppsRacK

Make A rule:
-->When game.collision = true, animate
--->add a timer attribute
---->after 0.5 (change to whatever suits you)
----->change attribute game.collision = false

dorme1

Cool! It works great! Thanks so much for the help guys!:)

RedlerTech

No problem

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