How do i animate a actor ?

appgameplayappgameplay Member Posts: 33
in Working with GS (Mac)
Like... I want to make a simple game, when user touches actor, actor moves. when left click is down, actor animate.

like talking tom, or like imagine a boxer actor, your finger is punching. How do I make that ? any takers who know how?

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  • gyroscopegyroscope I am here.Member, Sous Chef, PRO Posts: 6,598
    edited November 2013

    Hi @appgameplay
    Like... actor animate. ….How do I make that ? any takers who know how?
    Lots of takers here on the Forums who know how…

    Get your animation frames together, either made yourself or commissioned, and use them in Animate Behaviours, triggered by booleans set by your left and right controls, for instance.

    There's a really good template in the initial box that appears when you open GSC, under Open Recent Projects, it's called Platformer Template. I recommend you open that and study the Rules, you'll learn a lot about how to control a player via buttons, etc, collisions and more. :-)

    PS Please don't make more than one thread about exactly the same thing, this is against Forum rules (and not good Forum etiquette anyhow). I'll delete your other thread now.

    If it's on exactly the same subject but a slightly different question, just add a comment to your own thread, instead of making another one.

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  • appgameplayappgameplay Member Posts: 33

    Hi @appgameplay
    Like... actor animate. ….How do I make that ? any takers who know how?
    Lots of takers here on the Forums who know how…

    Get your animation frames together, either made yourself or commissioned, and use them in Animate Behaviours, triggered by booleans set by your left and right controls, for instance.

    There's a really good template in the initial box that appears when you open GSC, under Open Recent Projects, it's called Platformer Template. I recommend you open that and study the Rules, you'll learn a lot about how to control a player via buttons, etc, collisions and more. :-)

    PS Please don't make more than one thread about exactly the same thing, this is against Forum rules (and not good Forum etiquette anyhow). I'll delete your other thread now.

    If it's on exactly the same subject but a slightly different question, just add a comment to your own thread, instead of making another one.
    Sorry about that. I am a good guy. Whenever I get a new job i usually always break the rules the first week, then people really start liking me and I do a really great job. I don't know why, I just need the exta.... kick in the ass or something. I don't know. But at my last job, It was a telemarketing position, and the first week I broke so many rules and did not know it, Then I ended up becoming the manager, and the staff and kinds loved me, couldn't get enough of me.

    Ok so I just downloaded a "knight" gif. animation. (that template is not there, it just says recent, or clear history) ....
  • appgameplayappgameplay Member Posts: 33
    edited November 2013
    @gyroscope ok this is my mission today. What you said. (also we need to do gravity so my guy stays on the ground lol) My instructions are Get your animation frames together, either made yourself or commissioned, and use them in Animate Behaviours, triggered by booleans set by your left and right controls, for instance. What is "get your animation frames together?"
  • appgameplayappgameplay Member Posts: 33
    ok I need help....... any takers? here is a screenshot picture. I made a actor, and dragged a .gif media on his picture then dragged the picture on to the stage, pressed play and he is not animating. "standing still" breathing animation.

    Look at this screen shot (because there is no where here to post a screen shot)

    http://s21.postimg.org/i1z83zu1j/animationsscreenshot.png
  • appgameplayappgameplay Member Posts: 33
    hello?
  • appgameplayappgameplay Member Posts: 33
    lol i downloaded the zip with the images. it froze the software. when i dragged to animate rule........................................
  • harrywatsonharrywatson Member Posts: 61
    Hi I'm new too. I was going to send you a screen shot but I'll send you my first game
    instead. It was made on a mac so I hope you can open it. All the art is original and you are free to use it. The idea is to shoot chickens that are flying past. See my profile picture?
    If you double click one of the chickens in the 'actors' window you should see all the
    rules for animation. One animation for chickens flying past and another animation
    for when you shoot them. No real chickens were harmed in the making of this game.
    For the gun sound I started recording and slapped the desk with a magazine.

    Chicken Blast >>
  • allc1865allc1865 Member, PRO Posts: 777
    When touch is pressed > animate > put your images of an animation in the area...
    Is that what you're looking for?
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