Play different frame animated loops on action?

oram

Hi there,

I m new here, so I m trying to work on a sample where I created two different animated frame sequences for a character action.
I want to have on idle mode the fist loop playing, and by hitting the character to play the second sequence once.

Which is the best way to resolve this?

SlickZero

You can create 2 boolean attributes, and for the sake of this conversation we'll call them idleCharacter and movingCharacter. Set the default to true for idleCharacter and set the default to false for movingCharacter. Inside of the character actor, set up 3 rules. One rule that says -

When "touch" is pressed (or whatever other method you are using to trigger the animations)
*Drop in 2 Change Attribute behaviors*
Change Attribute "idleCharacter" to false
Change Attribute "movingCharacter" to true

In the "Otherwise" section -
*Drop in 2 Change Attribute behaviors*
Change Attribute "idleCharacter" to true
Change Attribute "movingCharacter" to false

In the second rule -

when attribute.idleCharacter is "true"
*Drop in an Animate behavior*
Put the animation frames you have for the idle character into the behavior, and figure out a good framerate to achieve the desired results.

In the third rule -

when attribute.movingCharacter is "true"
*Drop in an Animate behavior*
Put the animation frames you have for the moving character into the behavior, and figure out a good framerate to achieve the desired results.

oram

it worked! Thanks a lot SlickZero!

oram

the only issue I saw is that when the action finish I got no loop to idle animation which has a "true" state

SlickZero

Did you use the change attributes in the "Otherwise" section that tells it when touch is not being pressed (or whatever method you used to trigger the animation) to return to the idle animation state?