Fade between animations?

I have a sprite that has about five single frame animations, each one showing a character with a different facial expression.

I can switch between these perfectly fine in the event editor, but I was wondering if it was possible to get these to fade into each other rather than just instantly switch? Is there a way to fade between animations?

There is a pre-set fade behaviour you can apply to objects. In the event sheet you can then do something like

Set Animation Frame 1

Start Fade

On FadeOut Finished > Set: Animation Frame 2

Start Fade

etc.

Ensure you don't have 'Destroy after fade out' set to Yes and it should switch between each animation after each fade out.

But wouldn't that cause the sprite to fade out (as in, become completely transparent) before fading in again?

I was hoping for the images to actually fade into each other, like a typical fade transition.

Then you need to set up some logic where instead of fading, it decreases opacity over time then changes animation. I imagine you would need two separate objects for that too. I don't think there's a simple option for fading images in and out like that. Maybe there is somewhere, hidden : D

Alright, i've managed to fudge together some working fading using two objects like you said. It creates a new object, moves it underneath the original, changes the animation of the new one, and then activates the fade out of the upper one.

It's a bit hacky, but it works for what I need. Thanks for the help. :)