[Solved] randomly play different animations

I have this animal that I want to blink it's eyes but only randomly. I'd like it to be seamless so it seems like maybe if there were some "on completion of animation" event i could randomly pick a number after each the main idle animation complete and if the number is a certain number, then it would play that other animation and when that completes, random again.. over and over.

I just don't see how i can achieve that looking at an objects animation options. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Caleb

On animation ended (animation name) set variable1 to Random()

If Variable1 = whatever start animation2

On animation2 ended start animation 1

Take the eyes out of the sprite. and have it pinned to your main character.

Then use an event to animate eyes independently.

Go look here for some inspiration:

scirra.com/forum/tutorial-camera-fx-limbo-look_topic40427.html

I use the variable method for my game. The main character in my game can strike in 4 directions, but a random animation is played every time to keep things dynamic. For every strike a given variable gets assigned a random number between 1-10.

To use this variable with your animations, you must first name your animations accordingly. The animations are for instance called LeftHit_1, LeftHit_2 etc.

The string to trigger this is: "LeftHit_"&VariableWithMagicNumber

Hope this helps.

Instead of using a variable number you could also use:

choose("blinkfast","blinkleft","blinkslow")

that way you can just use the animationnames you want.

oh wow that's so cool that you can just plug in objects names like that LittleStain! i love it.

— i don't know if I understand how to do that "on end". where would I access that event? I don't recall seeing that anywhere I've been in but maybe i'm looking in the wrong place?

thanks!

Caleb

I'm not sure objectnames would work as expected.

Strings and numbers work great.

Hi part12studios,

go to the animation category of events in your object and look for "On Finished". I guess that is what bluephase ment :)

ok awesome that worked great! I get it now and got it working similar to how you suggested! Yea I just hadn't noticed the animation options until you clearly pointed them out. Thanks a bunch for your help on this. This opens up a lot of other fun possibilities :)