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How do you temporarily take control from the player? I'm making a fighting game and I don't want the player to be capable of moving, attacking etc during the "knocked down" animation. Once the animation is finished I want full control returned to them.
Set speed to 0 or set max speed to 0 should accomplish this.
The problem is, the player still has the ability to change animations, i.e. they get hit, start playing the "knockdown" animation, but if they hit any other key a new animation overrides the knockdown, so it never finishes. I need the player to be incapable of changing animations.
If I could rename this thread, I'd clarify to "How to make uninterruptible animations?"
are you using built in movements or custom movement?
Basically you need to tell the program to only play animations if certain conditions are true, for example you don't want:
Player presses 's' - change animation to shoot.
Instead you want
animation hurt is not playing
+player Presses 'S' - change animation to shoot
in this case, the shoot animation would only play if the hurt animation is not playing. If you're using built in movements, you could disable player inputs or use multiple movements (static) while the hurt animation is playing so that the player can't interfere with the animation, then resume the movement/inputs when the hurt animation is complete.
Another thing you can do is to use a different active object for the knocked down animation.
When the fighter gets knocked down, create the knockedDown object, give it the position and direction of the fighter object and destroy the fighter object.
Always add a value to the knockedDown object, and when it reaches 100 (2 seconds), create the fighter object at its position, give it the direction of the knockedDown object and then destroy the knockedDown object.
I know how to do Popcorn's suggestion, but DaveC's suggestion is what I initially wanted to do but didn't know was possible.
How do you set the qualifier "If animation hurt is not playing?" I've only seen the ability to set the opposite "If it's playing" qualifier.
How do you set the output "If <qualifier>, disable player input"? Followed I guess then by "If animation hurt has finished, re-enable player input?"
Use the "is hurt playing" right click on it and select "negate" this will make the event run if "is hurt playing" is NOT. So it turns into "If animation hurt is not playing".
Okay! Everything makes sense now. I see how to do these things, and sadly because I'm using the packaged platform animation I don't think I can use the superior way to solve the problem. I'm going to use the "switching active objects" for this project, but for my next one I'll create my own movement system to avoid this problem in the future. Thanks!
There is this other methode I'm using. It checks if a global value is 0, if it is, then that event is allowed to be executed:
If object's temperature is at max
* Spawn big explosion
* Make player's object invisible
* Subtract 1 from lives
* Slow down music.
* Set global value D to 1
Now for all events I need to be performed I simply check if D = 0. This goes for allowing the object to fire shots, being moved around etc etc... This can also be used in a howto segment where you just want to allow some actions to be performed.
If global D = 0
* Allow movement
If global D = 1
* Allow this
If global D = 2
* Allow that