animation help

zombots

i have an actor that follows the main player and i want it to animate when it walks left or right.
like if the actor is moveing right play the right animation and if its moving left play the left animation.
does anybody have any ideas on how to do this?

harrio

what's cookin,

i think you could try basing the actor animations on the keypress of the player.

something like: if player pressing left key then actor runs the left animation.

zombots

sorry i didnt explain that the best im using Chasing the actor from
http://gamesalad.com/wiki/how_to_gsc_follow_another_actor
and i got a few actors that move towards the position of the player.
i need it to still animate if the player stop but the other actor is still moving towards him if that makes sense?

Kamazar

Gah, I posted after you added details. ... is there a way to track an actor's direction? The only way I know is to find the difference between the actor's position at one point in time and then again at another, and whether or not the answer's negative or positive would define what direction it's going, but yeah... kinda complicated.

CodeMonkey

You could check if the self.Motion.LinearVelocity.X is less than 0, then it is moving left and do that animation, etc...

zombots

thanks heaps codemonkey