How do I change animation depending on angle of motion

Sounds like a easy problem to fix however i am programming a top down game similar to the

old zelda games and i have monsters that use the PATH properties to move around and seek out the player when the line of sight is active

the problem is i use animations to show what direction the monsters use instead of a rotation.

how can i have my monsters change animation when they are within certain angles of movement when using path finding?

an example that does not work

Monster - is between 315 - 45 degrees = Set animation to - MoveRight

Yes that works.

Just add a System> Once While True to that condition.

Now, you start the animation from the beginning every tick, this is why you see only the first frame.

Here the example with a capx file.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kjtnwzea3zd40 ... .capx?dl=0

thanks for the capx but thats not what im looking for, the player isnt the issue it is monsters that move on their own they also use the path finder property to move by themselves not an 8 movement default button key press.

i've added the extra bit of commands as you said however still does not work, what i should have said earlier is that the object does not actually rotate so as a result the angle is at a constant 0 even though it is moving at all sorts of angles trying to path find towards the player

This is a heavily inspired way i use the movement for the monsters like i said i cant seem to get the animations to change depending on the direction of the chase!

https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/474/pa ... e-of-sight

Upload a capx.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/k1qixs7pqmhcd ... .capx?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dwx5nslrekv97 ... .capx?dl=0

Your random paths are (i think) to fast calling for a new path.

On failed is not not needed.

Those Pathfinding_Helper's are a great idea !

There are only 4 animations for 360 possible directions.

This could be useful:

Hey R0J0hound thats a nice way to do this. Thank you (for myself).

For topic starter ... his angles are the path angles.

He is not allowing the paths to rotate the objects.

Luckely the path angles are still in the expressions. the sprite.angle is always zero.

Thank you 99Instances, This was EXACTLY what i was looking for, my original concept seemed to be the key but the angle (related to the sprite) was the problem.

If i could reward you for your awesomeness i would.

Thanks again!!!