Random Animations

[DarkArchonLord]

I am trying to emulate the randomness of unit portraits like in typical RTS games. I have 4 seperate different .gif animations of the unit. I was wondering how I could make the unit play 1 of those .gifs at random each time it finishes animating 1 .gif. Any suggestions?

[RickyRombo]

Use flags and Alt Values.

Alt Value = 1
Flag 1 is on
-Turn Flag 1 off
-Play 1st animation

Etc...

Animation 1 is over
-Set alterable value to Random(3)+1
-Turn Flag 1 on

[DarkArchonLord]

This seems to work only when the random animation to be played is not the same animation that was just playing. It stops the cycle if for example animation 1 is finished and the radnom generater picks animation 1 to be the played next

[Chaos]

I don't know why but I always seem to have trouble with flags.

So perhaps try this:
Animation 1 is finished --> set Alt Val A = Random(3)+1

Alt Val A = 1 -->
Change Animation 2
+Set Alt Val A = 0

Alt Val A = 2 -->
Change Animation 3
+Set Alt Val A = 0

Alt Val A = 3 -->
Change Animation 4
+Set Alt Val A = 0

Animation 2 is finished
or
Animation 3 is finished
or
Animation 4 is finished -->
Set animation to Animation 1

That should work, its how I have the idle animations for my character set up.

[DarkArchonLord]

Worked perfectly, thanks a ton!