Sptite animation how?

Hi,

I have read through some tut's but i still can't figure this out..LOL

I have added a sprite and given it "Platform" behaviour and added the other image variations such as walking right, left, jumping..etc as additional frames.

Now how on earth do i get my animation to run? Do i need to set up an event list?

Have a look at

https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/253/how-to-make-a-platform-game/page-1#tuttop

is contains quite a bit about animations

My mistake, i didn't have it set to loop and was missing the animation..LOL

First ensure all your movements are set to different animations

You can either add the "set animation" events to your control input events...

key left is down> move player left

                  "set animation" to "walk"

Or another way, is use an instance variable to set the animations...

name your animations as so

move0

move1

move2 ect ect

key left is down> move player

                  set variable to 1

key right is down> move player

                  set variable to 2

then a separate event

(every tick) set animation to "move"&<player variable>

should work...

Hate when that happens...

But how do you set the animation for each different direction?

I have my character running right by using the "Platform on moved" event as per the tutorial, but that just makes the same animation run no matter what direction i send the sprite!

Do i need to actually give my sprite obect (platform object) a 8 point control behaviour too?

First ensure all your movements are set to different animations

Sorry, but where do i set that up? I looked everywhere..LOL

In the image editor, there is an animation bar on the right, here you can add, duplicate and rename animations...

Edit it may be hidden behind some other window...

Hi,

I was cool with that bit, i wasn't sure where the keyboard object was..LOL

So You sorted it?...<scratches head>

No, they still won't play..<a class ="scratches head too"></a>