Active Object animation replacement?

Hello, I did some Google searching and can't seem to find the answer, but is it possible to replace one Active Object's animations with another Active's animation? For example, I was trying to have two sets of armor/outfits, and I was wondering if rather than having to make a whole entire separate series of events for the second outfit, if I could just have the second outfit as it's own active, but when a value is set, it replaces "Normal Outfit"'s walking animation with "Second Outfit"'s Walking animation.

On idea would be to create each outfit as its own active with the same qualifier, for example "Player".

Then write all your code using the qualifier "Player" - the collisions / movement etc instead of the active.

That way you can swap the outfits without having to change any of the code.

I didn't even know "qualifiers" were a thing, where can I find them?

In the Object's properties, select the Event tab and you'll see the text 'Qualifier(s)'. Click inside the empty field to the right and an edit box will appear. Click it and select a qualifier!

Attached is a very basic example of how to use them.

I think there's just one issue though, although making the first outfit (and second) a qualifier would work if it was just them, when you shoot your blaster, it briefly makes the main player invisible with the "second" player with shooting animations visible, so I think this might get a bit messy

In that case you could have multiple animations for your player instead of creating a second player for the shooting animation. That way you're changing the animation sequence, not the character.

I feel like I should post the file for the game but I'm not sure if that's needed, since my description is kinda vague

If you made an example of what you're struggling with and posted it here - it would be easier for people to fix it in your example and re-post it.

Here's the file: Attachment 25954

I would recommend you use global values - when anything happens set a value rather than all the negated conditions.

For example morph is active set global.morph = 1

Then when down arrow is pressed
+ global.morph = 1
change animation to crouch down

If the player overlaps a ladder set global.climb = 1

then when up arrow is pressed
+ global.climb = 1
change animation to ladder climb

when up arrow is pressed
+ global.climb = 0
change animation to jump


I would also recommend that you only have one character. When something is happening and you don't have enough animations you can at that point replace it with a new character.

Create Character B at location Character A then delete Character A and when Character B is done create character A again.

Again if you want different uniforms and you've used values you can have:

global.uniform = 1
create character C from Character A

global.uniform = 2
create character D from Character A

etc.

Having two characters run like that is going to create problems for you.

Ah, I was trying to avoid global values because I planned the game to have 3 save files, and I thought global values applied to all frames, I've never really made a game that has saving or files before, so I;m not 100% sure how some of this stuff works.

Global values do apply to all frames and you can reset them at the start of frame. But they will help you to save the game rather than hinder you.

You can save every global value that you want to use in an ini file at the end of a level or frame and then load them on the start of a frame or level and the player can carry on where they left off.

What you're doing in your game would be a lot more difficult to save.

Well that doesn't sound very good, seems like I'll have to start from scratch