Change animation during timeline

Hey guys!

I'm pretty new to Construct3, so sorry, if I'm asking dumb stuff.

Is there any solution for changing a sprite's animation during a timeline?

Like to "walk" from "idle" animation?

I don't really find anything about that question.

Basically my main problem is that if I'm moving a character with timeline, the platform based properties just goes to zero, and the animations doesn't change based on speed, etc.

I tried to use moveto instead, but in that case, I can't use timeline based tags to trigger events, and the animations doesn't changes correctly either. Only of there is some gravitation in the equation, like falling.

Thank you!

Thanks!

Well... it's probably not a "best practice", but I came up with a solution. I figured it out, that I can change some props on the fly, but as I see, unfortunately there is no "AnimationName" prop for the sprite object on the props panel, so I gave a "currentAnimation" instance variable to my player object, and I refresh it based on the "frame changed" event from the sprite. During the timeline, I can reach that variable, and change it, what changes the current animation on the sprite (with some magic on the event sheet panel). So... yep. It's a little ugly, so if there is any "factory solution", pls share it :) Thanks!

How is this solution working for you so far? I'm looking to do the same thing -- have sprite animations change during a timeline -- and I'm actually pretty surprised it's not a standard option.

Well.. It's working quite good I think :) The only problem is that I have to be really specific with everything. Like if I want to move a character from A point to B, I have to flag a bunch of keyframes with animation names. Turn right, then idle, then walk, then idle again, etc. But I accept it, because there will be cases, where I want to move the character with idle animation, (for example the character stands on a moving object) and I'm pretty sure that there will be other cases, where the character movement and the animation will not have some "obvious relation". But yeah, I was also surprised that I had to implement some custom solution for that.

That's good to hear! I'm going to play around with this idea a bit and may have some questions. Thanks!