Triggering Animations

HaleyF

Hey, I'm a super noob so I apologize if this has been answered already. I searched the forum to no avail.

I'm wondering the best way to trigger an animation when 2 actors collide. Say you're character is a man, and there's a woman standing around, when you walk into her how do I trigger an animation of them dancing. Ideally that would appear overtop of them and then disappear upon completion.

Thanks!!!

MotherHoose

are the animation images showing both man and woman?
if so you can have only one actor run the animation
best to pick the actor that has the least number of rules

and to this action from constantly triggering:

a boolean gameAttribute: danceDone

on womanActor:
Rule: when (All)
Event: overlaps/collides with actor man
Attribute: game.danceDone is false
--Animate
--Rule: when
--a Timer or Rule
---changeAttribute: self.Image To: correctImage for woman
---changeAttribute: game.danceDone To: true

on manActor:
Rule: when
Event: overlaps/collides with actor woman
Attribute: game.danceDone is false
--changeAttribute: self.Color.Alpha To: 0
Otherwise: changeAttribute: self.Color.Alpha To: 1

sound like fun! … @HaleyF … Eadweard Muybridge's original movie dance


MH

PsychoticStudios

Hey, sounds like you're new. welcome to Gamesalad . To do what you want add a rule behavior on to the actor you want to effect and add a when actor collides with condition. Then add an animate behavior below the to the rule. For any more help I recomend these two YouTube channels:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Tshirtbooth
http://www.youtube.com/user/GameSaladCookbook/featured

Hope this help

(EDIT) oops read the rest if you're question. I saw "how to make animation" and I typed first thing that came to mind. READ BELOW FOR A BETTER ANSWER

HaleyF

Thank you guys so much!