Animation facing

macmasher

What I'm wanting to achieve is when the main actor is right of the zombie that the zombie faces the actor, and when its left of it, it faces the actor. I have both animation sequences for the zombie walking left and right but I don't know how to go about making the zombie know which side the actor is on.

natzuur

If you track the main actors X through game attributes you can do the following.

On the Main actor:
Constrain Game.MainActorX to self.positionX

On the zombie:
When Self.PositionX is less than Game.MainActorX
Play right animation

When Self.PositionX is greater than Game.MainActorX
Play left animation

As a side note if the left and right animation are identical but flipped you can just use the built in self graphcis flip horizontally to flip a single animation to work both ways. This will save memory and can use the same rules as above but with a change attribute.

macmasher

@natzuur

Wingmanapps

Or you could simple say

self.motion.linear.x < 0
play right animation
self.motion.linear.x > 0
play left animation

Saves you some code and it gives better performance when not using constraints.

natzuur

Or you could simple say

self.motion.linear.x < 0
play right animation
self.motion.linear.x > 0
play left animation

Saves you some code and it gives better performance when not using constraints.

True but that assumes that the main actors x will never need to be tracked globally for other purposes, and that the zombie will never be stopped but need to continue facing the correct direction.