Running Animation Question

SilkyPop · February 28, 2014 at 6:12 AM

Hello all,

I'm new to mmf2 and I have a (noob) question about the running animation. I have the sprites for the walking and running animation but what is the best way to run the running animation?

I want to hold shift for my character to run. Once I let go of shift, it goes back to walking animation. This is what I did:

Repeat while "shift" is pressed - change animation sequence to running.
X Repeat while "shift" is pressed - restore animation sequence.

This accomplished the walk to run animation. Two problems though:
1. When I hold shift, the animation plays without the character is moving.
2. The second condition blocks out any other key presses. For example. If I wanted another animation to play by pressing another button, it won't work because of the second condition.

What is the best way to have the character go from walking animation to running animation? How are you guys coding the running animation? I looked around and can't seem to find an answer. A link or your guidance will be much appreciated.

Thank you for your time.

Warmachine · February 28, 2014 at 1:49 PM

What type of movement are you using? Built in platform movement or the Platform Movement Object? If you're using the PMO, try this

-Character "Running" is playing (right click and hit "negate, this will put a red X next to the animation)
-Character "Walking" is playing (negate this too)
-Object is Moving (this is for the PMO, negate it as well)
>- Character animation change to "Idle" or stopped or whatever you have named for your standing animation. if this doesn't help, post your file and i'll help you out

SilkyPop · February 28, 2014 at 4:42 PM

I am using the 8 directional movement.
Will that be different from the platform movement?

Warmachine · February 28, 2014 at 4:46 PM

Slightly but i just mention that because that's what i use primarily and its a very popular extension. If you can upload your file i'll take a look at it.

Del_Duio · February 28, 2014 at 5:05 PM

Try something like this:

User isn't pressing the direction arrows -> set variable "running" to 0 / variable "buildup" to 0

Every 1 second + User is pressing (right or left arrows) -> Add 1 to variable "buildup"

If User is pressing (right or left arrows) and variable "buildup" < 4 then (move the guy right or left a little bit) + change animation to "walking"

If User is pressing (right or left arrows) and variable "buildup" >= 4 then (move the guy right or left a little more) + change animation to "running"

Something like that.

SilkyPop · February 28, 2014 at 10:31 PM

Warmachine,
Attached is what I have so far.

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Del_Duio,
That is a good idea. I might try that but I would like to see if I can create a "run" button by just holding down shift. If not, something like that might work for me.

sgtpieman · February 28, 2014 at 11:34 PM

What I'd do is where you have the

"if shift is held down" insert a "if speed is "greater than 0".

Where you have the "shift is not held down" insert an OR (logical) and then a "if speed is equal to zero"

Here's the mfa of that. It works on my end just fine.

SilkyPop · February 28, 2014 at 11:55 PM

Thank you sptpieman. I wasn't able to download it because of maybe I have 2.0, but I made the changes you did. It worked. My character does not do the run animation while holding down shift.

But, I am not able to play the other animation by pressing Z. I'm not sure if your file that you attached has the same problem, but how would that be addressed?

sgtpieman · March 1, 2014 at 12:28 AM

wait, that thundershock is supposed to be working? I thought it wasn't implemented yet. Yeah, it didn't work when I downloaded the file, but I'll take a look and see what can be done to fix it.

sgtpieman · March 1, 2014 at 4:54 PM

Sorry SilkyPop, but for the life of me I can't seem to figure this out. Everything looks like it is in place, and Pikachu does indeed stop when Z is pressed, but it doesn't play the animation. I suspect the idle animation is taking priority due to you using the the built in keyboard. There's an object called Key Object you can get in the extension manager that should fix this. It even has a key released function, so creating the sprinting should be even easier.

Sorry I couldn't help further.

SilkyPop · March 1, 2014 at 6:41 PM

Thanks sgtpieman. You helped a lot already. I'll look up the Key Object that you've suggested.

sgtpieman · March 1, 2014 at 6:53 PM

I got it working! And without the Key Object too! Okay, what you need to do is where you have "X repeat while shift is pressed OR (logical) speed = 0", insert a "X animation thundershock is playing".

Okay, noticed a slight hiccup. It seems thundershock doesn't work unless you are running. You'll need the Key Object to fix this. Change "X repeat while shift is pressed" to "On Key number 160 released".

Also, when you thundershock you have it set to where you can shoot up and down even though there's only animation for left and right. So where you have animation "upon pressing Z" insert a "user is facing direction" and check both left AND right. This will make sure you can only thundershock while facing left or right.

SilkyPop · March 1, 2014 at 7:12 PM

Nice! But it seems to work only when he's running. When I'm at a standstill, the thundershock animation is not playing. But this is a step in the right direction. I'll play around and see if I can add more conditions like that in each condition.

sgtpieman · March 1, 2014 at 7:19 PM

Yeah, I noticed that too. I edited the post with the new instructions. You need Key Object unfortunately.

SilkyPop · March 1, 2014 at 7:23 PM

I have MMF2 at the moment. I'll either buy 2.5 or wait for the extension to reach MMF2. Thanks. You were a lot of help.

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