Animate basic sprite frames on request?

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- Bootfit
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I have a really basic sprite (called Player) that has 4 frames of animation and sits on a FloorLayer with solid behaviour enabled.

Frames 0 and 1 are the basic legs up/down running states. Frame 2 is the jump state and frame 3 is the downwards state (the state between jumping and falling back down to start running again in frames 1 & 2).

I currently have the following:

Mouse > On any click > Player > Simulate Platform pressing Jump.

This moves the sprite up in a jump motion. But the sprite continually runs through frames 1 > 3 including the jump & downwards states.

How do I edit the event sheet to run just frames 0 and 1 for running and frame 2 when in the jump state and frame 3 after the jump state and returning to the FloorLayer?

Thanks all :)
- R0J0hound
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Set the animation speed to 0, and just set the frame with events depending on if it's jumping or falling. For the running you can come up with a nice expression that changes between 0 and 1 over time.
is jumping -- set frame to 2 else is falling -- set frame to 3 else -- set frame to int(10*time)%2

The 10 in the last expression is the frames per second.

But you can make it in another way too. No need for fancy expressions.

global number runframe=0 every 0.1 seconds -- set runframe to 1-runframe every tick -- set frame to runframe is jumping -- set frame to 2 is falling -- set frame to 3
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- Bootfit
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Smashing thanks.

There's so many sub-events with each behaviour that I didn't know Plaform is Jumping, Platform is Falling are even things. I suppose you don't know they're there until you need to use them.