Animation does not disappear when finished

Question,
So I have gone back and forth in different things trying to get my animation to disappear when complete. I found a tutorial that showed you could use an alternate value and basically toggle the animation in stopped position on and off. I tried that but it didn't work. I have tried visibility, stop animation, destroy. Could someone tell me what the usual code is for turning on and off an animation. The ones I have made are different explosions. I am trying to also make them have different effects. This first one destroys the enemy for the length of the animation. The next one I would like to just stop or slow the enemy for the length of the animation. Any suggestions or if you could point me to a tutorial I'd really appreciate it. Thanks much, Cathy

Can you post a mfa? That would be the best way to go. We need to see what you are asking to do.

1) You could force an animation to a blank animation frame when finished.
2) You could leave the last animation frame blank and loop the animation so that it returns to the blank and continually loops.
3) You could destroy the Active (animation) when finished or at the last frame.
4) You could change the animation to another animation sequence of 2 frames with the first being blank (and the second containing anything small because it won't ever be seen), and set the animation speed to zero.
5) You could make the Active invisible when the animation finishes or when it reaches the last frame (just be aware that the animation frames start counting from zero not one).
6) Have the last animation frame blank & don't loop, it will stay on the last blank frame.

All these ideas will work, it just depends what you prefer and what you game requires :)

Here's an example: Attachment 21470

It's hard to say without seeing it but

A) check so you haven't put the animation on loop
B) Unless you are using the built in animations like walking, lauching etc you have to manually trigger the changes with changing the animation to the different ones.
C) Double check you don't have an event that constantly triggers the animation that dont want to change, e.g. an always or "If flag 0 is off" event.

Thanks for all the great suggestions!!! I'm going to try some of them this afternoon and see how it goes. You guys are awesome!

Frustration. I can't figure this out. I have tried all these different suggestions. If I change one thing then the animation doesn't show at all or it stops and doesn't go away. So I wondered if it was something to do with the plasmabomb animation and tried it with the shockerbomb and I'm having the same issues. I'm thinking either I am missing some fundamental coding rules that I am not aware of that is causing me problems with this stuff and my physics engine or I have done something wrong in my game that is effecting many of my attempts at coding. Probably the former. Here is a link to my game. If someone could look at this and give me some advice I would greatly appreciate it. https://www.dropbox.com/s/phelloct7f...anima.mfa?dl=0

In the newest beta release today it addresses this issue: ""- In low frame rate conditions some animations didn't reach the end."". Could this possibly be related?

Cathy you need to add a create plasma bomb condition. At the moment the plasma bomb is being called to a position yet one doesn't exist on the screen. The animation is working fine. Just add create plasma bomb at 0 , 0. In line 43 at the top. In your case destroy after animation has finished will work better too (line 46) Cheers :)

aenever, I put the create condition in which did help some, but I had to click multiple times on button to make animation start- supposed to be single click. I have experimented with animation on loop- then it won't turn off, even with destroy on line 46. If I have the animation play once, it doesn't show up on screen. Runthis, I didn't see the beta release but I don't know how to fix my frame rate unless I made the animation really long and then increased the frame rate because I want it to stay on screen for about 4 seconds.

You could loop the animation manually so that it only plays once yet stays on the screen for the required 4 seconds. As for the multiple clicks needed to trigger the animation that's a new problem you'll have to isolate. It wouldn't have anything to do with the animation itself, rather it's something to do with the way it's triggered.

I tried a manual loop with an alternate value earlier. It didn't solve my problem. As for the multiple clicks, I have set it up as User clicks on button once, so it makes no sense that it doesn't work. I checked to make sure the buttons were up front. I don't understand why some of the commands in the coding don't work- what causes this?

Mouse clicks work for me seamlessly are you using the latest beta?

I have it set to automatically look for updates, does it update itself or is there something I have to do?

Some update you'll only find on the owner's lounge under downloads, check that the number is greater than the one installed. If so download and update (I always choose the main program as it update all the exporters as well).

Thanks, I will check that out.