Use interpolate to make animation occurs problem

Weiyu

Hello everyone!
I have a problem about interpolate.

I usually use interpolate to make animation.
For example: A actor move up and down.
But always occurs bug?

I made a button to control the actor to move to Position.A(100) and Position.B(-150).
And the actor will move up and down when it position=100.
But when I touch the button again, it sometimes can't back.
Sometimes working, but sometimes not.

Please help me.
What should I do?

↓↓↓There is my GS behaviors and Gif.↓↓↓

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Button
When Touch
Do Change Attribute A.Boolean = not(A.Boolean)

Actor
When A.Boolean = true
Do interpolate self.position.y = 100 / 0.25s
Else interpolate self.position.y = -150 / 0.25s

When self.position.y = 100
Do interpolate self.position.y = 150 / 0.25s //this behavior is move up.(cycle)

When self.position.y = 150
Do interpolate self.position.y = 100 / 0.25s //this behavior is move down.(cycle)

Hopscotch

@Weiyu

• You have a "-" here "Else interpolate self.position.y = -150 / 0.25s"

• When testing for a position, use "<=" and ">=". If you only use "=" to test for a specific position, then the Rule will usually miss that specific value, because the actor X and Y position is a real number (e.g. 150.5342) and because the actor may be moving to fast.

Socks

@Hopscotch said:
@Weiyu

• You have a "-" here "Else interpolate self.position.y = -150 / 0.25s"

This is why typing out your code is often a pointless exercise, if you've made a mistake in your code (an extra comma in an expression, a rule accidentally switched off . . .etc), then who is to say you will not unknowingly auto-correct when typing it out, or who is to say you won't also make another separate/new mistake in your typed code !?

A screenshot will show us what the code is doing, everything else is subject to transcription errors of various kinds.

@Hopscotch said:

• When testing for a position, use "<=" and ">=". If you only use "=" to test for a specific position, then the Rule will usually miss that specific value, because the actor X and Y position is a real number (e.g. 150.5342) and because the actor may be moving to fast.

I'm not sure that applies to the Interpolate behaviour, Interpolate will always hit the target number - that's why it uses a duration value rather than a pps value like other behaviours like Move.

Hopscotch

@Socks said:

@Hopscotch said:

• When testing for a position, use "<=" and ">=". If you only use "=" to test for a specific position, then the Rule will usually miss that specific value, because the actor X and Y position is a real number (e.g. 150.5342) and because the actor may be moving to fast.

That is why I said "when testing", implying rules. Guess I need to be more clear.

Socks

@Hopscotch said:
That is why I said "when testing", implying rules. Guess I need to be more clear.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying, even for rules when using an Interpolate !

With an Interpolated actor targeting X=156, you can quite safely use when X = 156, as Interpolate will always land on exactly 156.

Hopscotch

@Socks said:

@Hopscotch said:
That is why I said "when testing", implying rules. Guess I need to be more clear.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying, even for rules when using an Interpolate !

With an Interpolated actor targeting X=156, you can quite safely use when X = 156, as Interpolate will always land on exactly 156.

Quite right, fair point.

Weiyu

@Hopscotch @Socks

Thanks for your help, you do gave me a big favor.