Changing a Animation and starting at a given Frame

[JonF]

Hi,
Is there any way I can force an Active Picture to change to a different animation, and then to play that animation starting from a certain frame number through to the end (ie: don't start the animation at Frame 0).
Also, is there any way I can tell an Active Picture to play a certain animation backwards.
Thanks everyone!
Jon
PS: What would be really handy is if you could just specify start frame and end frame numbers for any animation, eg:
Play animation XXX from Frame 23 to Frame 45
or
Play animation YYY from Frame 56 to Frame 13

[SEELE]

Yes, use could get the frame of the animation to be based on a value giving you the ability to do all of the above, pretty easily.
:cool:

[Sarah]

Are you sure that you need the Active Picture object? The Active object has a Load Frame action that replaces an existing frame of a given animation & direction by a graphic file from the disk.

[JonF]

Sorry, sorry - It's an ACTIVE OBJECT, not an active Picture.

SEELE - Sorry, I don't get how this answers my question

SARAH - The LOAD FRAME does not help me. I want to keep the existing animations of the Active Object, but start playing one of them from a certain frame number onwards, just not from the first frame. If I use the method /Change/Animation Frame it jumps to the right frame but then stops and does not play the remaining frames through to the end of the animation!

[Sarah]

This works for me:
On pressing the Space Bar:
.....Change animation sequence to Walking
.....Force animation frame to 7
.....Start animation
.....Restore animation frame

The animation jumps to frame 7 and then plays frame 8, 9,10,11, and then back to frame 0, 1 etc.

If you want it to play backwards though, you'll need an Every so many milliseconds event in which you manually force to animation frame to (animation frame number -1).

*** I'm using build 246. I think there were changes in this area in build 244.

[Yves]

JonF, the problem you mention might have been fixed in a patch, what build of MMF2 do you use?

[JonF]

Thank you Sarah!
The code you supplied worked, but only after I updated from Build 244 to Build 246.
Wonderful!