Changing an animation while in motion?

[Vandas]

I wanted to setup a system so that if a character in 2D was running, and fired a gun, he would lift his arm and shoot, based on the current frame of the animation.

Would I have to associate each frame to a variable and have it constantly check which variable was active, and then play the animation based on the variable, or would there be a differant want to do this?

[DizzyDoo]

You could test for the animation value, which is the current frame, and an alternative would be to separate the torso from the legs and have 2 active objects. I'm sure there are a few ways of doing this.