Click Actor to animate problem

zzap64

I have an Actor with approx 20 frames of animation. I wish to click on him to plat thru the animation once. The problem I have is I have to click on him to play everyframe, is there a way I can click on him once he then plays his animation until the end ?

thankyou.

firemaplegames

The simplest way is to change the condition in your Rule to 'Touch is released', like this:

Rule
When all conditions are valid:
Touch is released
-----Animate

zzap64

Thanks for the feedback. The problem remains that I have to hold down the mouse button to play through the entire anim, I just want to press once and it plays through.

Thanks

quantumsheep

Try just doing:

When touch is pressed:

Play animation

Was more of a CRASH man myself

QS

scitunes

I would have a boolean

when touch is pressed
change self.StartAnimate to 1

Rule
When self.StartAnimate is true
Animate

May need to have a second change attribute in a timer to set the boolean back to false to stop the animation and allow it to be restarted with a second click.

firemaplegames

If 'Touch is released' is not working, it sounds like there is a logic bug somewhere.

Is all the code for your Actor in the prototype in the library?
When you double-click on the button in the scene, is there a padlock there?

zzap64

I have a Rule that when an Actor receives an event touch is pressed.
I add a Attribute rule underneath this but cannot find self.StartAnimate under the attribute browser ?

zzap64

Yeah, all the code is in the actor library, no padlock being shown.

zzap64

Hey, I started from scratch and now it works fine when touch is released, must of been a logic bug.
thanks for all your advice.
Just like turning a computer on/off when all else fails and everything works again