topdown shooter animation problem

Hi

i'm working on a topdownshooter game but i'm facing problem with switching animation i want my character to

switch two animation when colliding with an object the idle and the running animation the problem is when it collide with pistol it switch the animation but when i release the key it revert back to the main animation above are the two events that i have tried could anyone help me solve this problem.

Best Regards

Many ways to do this, but adding a boolean variable CarryingPistol to your playerand setting it to true on collision with pistol might be easiest:

add subevents to the keyboard is down events

subevent1

-player is boolean set carryingpistol - set animation to Playerpistol

subevent2

-else set animation to default

thanks i will try it now.

sorry about the player control events is there anything wrong i should correct ?

Keep the movement in the top-event and add the animations as said to the subevents..

sorry this stuff seems a bit advanced for me its telling me to add an instance variable first don't know what that is.

click on your player, now you have the players properties on the left of your screen..

Got to the add instance variable..

This is not advanced at all, it's almost inevitable..

https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/804/co ... -variables

i got it working thanks if i want to have another weapons can i use the same events.

hi i want to prevent the character from firing until he collides with the pistol its working but i just want to make sure its the correct way to do it

Thanks.

Hi guys i'm still having problems with switching between animations the method that littlestain suggested works but problems arise when i decided to add another weapons i did use the same method the animation switch but it doesn't play any idea what i should do.