Yes i do use variables, but mostly i use wait "(animation time)" seconds. But i am saying something like this image.

I'm not sure what you're asking now. Are you confused because the wording is different between the Spriter plugin and Construct sprites? They are functionally the same.

Compare animation (checking the name of the current animation) is the same as "is playing"< which is also just checking the name of the animation which is playing.

but it only checks for "Animation Name"

I'm trying to do is On any key pressed play "this" animation. but what if we pressing key continuously. So i want to add another condition When "this" animation is not playing.

Animation name is testing if that animation is playing at that moment, and if you invert/negate the event after creating it, then it tests for the reverse, IE "is this animation NOT playing".

For example, you want pressing a button to trigger a punch animation:

upon button pressed

Is player animation "punch" (NEGATED)

Then play the punch animation.

This is the basics, BUT for complex characters you likely want to learn how to use a variable as a simple 'state machine'. I always create a variable called "stuck in move", and treat a value of zero to mean they are not stuck in a move, and 1 to mean they are stuck in a move.

Then I set stuck in move to 1 whenever I trigger a special animation like punch, and then have an event that turns "stuck in move" back to zero when those animations finish. Otherwise you are going to end up needing to check if lots of different animations are not playing all over your 'code'.

there is no "is playing" condition in Spriter plugin

lucid

How do i check if animation is not playing in condition?

I think you check if it IS playing and then negate the event.

I found the cause and the work around.

I'm not sure which of these actions caused the crash, but this used to be an "On start of layout" event, and I switched it to wait until after 0.5 seconds have passed.

So apparently (my guess is) one of these events at start of layout tries to access or control something that might not exist at start of frame.

Hi everyone.

I made a simple app which uses a few basic NW.js features and export it via NW.js export and it runs great once it starts up, BUT I always have to try starting it 2 or 3 times... the first 1 or 2 or 3 times it always crashes immediately upon opening.

Has anyone else ever run into this?

Hi Gigatron,

Any chance of porting this effect to work on Construct3? I'm trying to migrate my project to c3.

Number of bones does matter, but the biggest potential performance hit is the risk of using needlessly large images in the Spriter file. If you import your character or other spriter made object and you have to reduce it via an action to a smaller scale then I highly recommend you use Spriter Pros's "create scaled clone of entire project" feature to make the actual Spriter project and it's images the actual size you need. Also, if you don't want or need to add special blending effects to individual body parts, then importing and setting the Spriter object to use the draw-self mode also helps performance.

Aside from that, the best advice for any game development in general, regardless of the authoring system or plug-ins you're using, is to test and bench-mark very often, on the actual weakest target device/platform, especially just after adding any big new object, feature etc, and after adding and using any new plug-in. By 'bench-mark' I mean, once you're adding Spriter objects, add an FPS counter on screen and make temporary events that create another Spriter object instance on screen and see how many you can get on screen before the frame rate drops too low.

Thanks for the quick fixes. I love spriter very much and believe that spriter 2 will be even better. I understand that you have a small team, but I want to ask you to release a short article on how to properly configure animation in the spriter. I would like to learn more about how it all works. For example, what to avoid when creating animations for mobile devices in order to save CPU and GPU on mobile devices. (Does the number of bones affect performance) Ashley once did this very well with the construct 3 example construct.net/en/make-games/manuals/construct-3/tips-and-guides/performance-tips.

lucid If it's not difficult for you, make this tutorial for Spriter, it will help you avoid making errors that affect performance when creating animations.

hello,

I set up player time scale to be 0.5.

I want to be able to check in expression player.timescale.

How do I do that?

Thanks

I know this is an ancient post, but did you find a solution for this, or did you need to do a work-around like creating a variable in the objects and manually setting that to match their time-scale when you set their time-scale etc?

Install this plugin:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/g5d6kvr51g8nfpd/cocoonjsads.zip?dl=0

Then open the project, remove all references to this plugin from all events, and remove the plugin.

Thanks. Luckily for me I found an alternate save of my app that didn't use the plugin. I didn't try with your provided version of the plug-in, but I may if this alternate version of my project turns out to be somehow incomplete or something like that.