Animation not playing for some weird Reason

[Snooley]

Hey there, Peoples!
I got a little Problem wich I am trying to figure out now for 2 Days - I finally gave up and I am now seeking for help.

The Situation is simple, but the solution doesn't seem to be.
It's the Following: My Animation won't play, no matter what I am doing. Jumping, walking, standing and crouching Animations work, but when I say:

"Repeat while "KEY" is pressed"
"Change Animation Sequence to: My Custom Animation"

It doesn't work. Instead, it only gives me the standing (doing nothing) Animation.

I also tried other things to figure out what the Problem might be:

"When Animation "Walking" plays"
"Change Animation Sequence to: Running"

Doesn't work eiter. Instead he is moving around with the Standing Animation.

Does anyone have any Ideas how to fix this / what causes this?
It's a Plattformer Active Object.

Thanks in Advance, Help would be greatly appreciated!

Mr. Snooley

[Jeff]

Would it be possible for you to upload your file so people can take a look?

I just tested the Repeat while key is pressed - Change animation and didn't have any troubles. You might have a few issues if you use the built in platform movement and try to override the animations it wants to play .. not sure, I do know it tries to use the default annimations -- stand, walk, climb, jump ect.

[Snooley]

Okay, it's pretty big though and could also be kind of difficult to see through all the things.

http://www.mediafire.com/?mlmmm5umtyn

There.

[Jeff]

Are you running the current build? Build 248
Check under the help then about for the current build number.

Can you also tell me what to do to see the error in the file?

[Snooley]

You can run around with the direction keys and when you press "Delete" it should play "Animation Use Special", but instead it changes back to the "Standing" Animation.

You can find the Event Commands under "Player1 - America BASIC ACTIONS "

I am using build 247.

[Jeff]

So many events to shift thru without comments or variables given names. Very hard for new eyes to follow the flow.

I think your best course of action might be to not use the built in platform movement and build a custom platform movement engine.

There is a tutorial on the tutorial page that might get you headed into that direction.

You can find the link to it over here ------------->

[PicklesIIDX]

I had this problem recently. I had found that further down in my code I was setting the animation to another animation. I haven't looked at your file, but if you have a lot there, you may be setting the animation to something else later in your code.

Not sure if that is your problem, but worth a shot.

[Werbad]

The problem is an event in the group "Player1 - America SHOOTING".
You have the event:
X Repeat while "Control" is pressed
> Restore animation

This restores any custom animation you're trying to play. Just add "Animation Shooting is Playing" to this event to solve it.

Edit:
There appears to be other problems as well, you are for example using Del in another event.

[Snooley]

Ha! It worked!
The "Restore Animation" Command was indeed the Problem, since it basically told the Game to always restore it to the default ones.

I'd like to thank everyone who helped me, now I can finally continue my work.

Thanks! : )

Mr. Snooley