Need help with animation stopping

brett-norton

Hi All

I Have built a game similar to the Whack a Monster template. (Whack A Mole Type Game)
I have animation up working and down working but i want an animation in between basically an idle animation.

Actor Pop Up Code
If Self.Enemy.Up is false - Do Timer Random 1,10 Animate & Change Attribute Self.Enemy.Up to True

Actor Pop Back Down Code.
If Self.Enemy.Up is True Do - Timer Random 1,4 Animate & Change Attribute Self.Enemy.Up to False

Now problem is i want to add another animation in between actor up and actor down kind of a waiting motion/idle
the code i have is:

Rule When self image contains (Last image of the up animation) Do Animate.

Now it will work but the image will change but it will not animate it changes to a still image.

What am i doing wrong.

Thanks in advance.

tatiang

Your rule looks something like this:

When self.Image=animation45.png
     Animate

The problem is that when the animation begins, self.Image changes value to whatever the first frame is (e.g. animation1.png). So the rule condition becomes false and the animation stops.

You can fix this one of two ways... either by changing an attribute value or by using a Timer with run to completion checked:

Method 1:
When self.Image=animation45.png
     Change Attribute self.idleAnimation to true

When attribute self.idleAnimation is true
     Animate

But then you'd need a way to change self.idleAnimation back to false.

Method 2:
When self.Image=animation45.png
     Timer after 0 seconds (run to completion must be checked)
          Animate

Run to completion causes the behavior(s) in the Timer to run even if the rule condition becomes false.

brett-norton

Sounds like a plan... will give that a shot tommorow. Thanks tatiang

brett-norton

This didnt work either, it picked up the self.image = certain image do animate. But it still did not animate it just changed the first image in the animation.

tatiang

Can you post a screenshot of your rules?

tatiang

Check out this demo.

brett-norton

Still cant get it to work,

tatiang

Having the rules is helpful but also... did my demo work for you? If your rules are not working, what happens when you test them? I'm assuming you changed something after your original post based on seeing my demo...

tatiang

Your last Animate behavior needs to be inside a Timer with run to completion set to true, as I suggested (and demo'ed) above.

brett-norton

Thanks i got it working from the above method works great now. Thanks again

tatiang

You're welcome.