Help with crouch down

[Na]

I need help.

I'm having a lot of trouble with my animations. When my character crouches down, he keeps moving, and I want the movement to stop.

But, in the event editor, when I set "If animation crouch down is playing, then stop movement", you can keep moving left and right.

How can I fix this?

[Jaffob]

You must have a problem in your code. Could you possibly upload your file? (You can use the MFA Repository in case you don't know.)

[mobichan]

In the conditions that make your player move, you need to add "If animation Crouch is playing (NEGATE)". You can add NEGATE by right clicking on the condition and it will be in the drop down menu. Negate is used to make the condition the opposite of itself. So in this case, the condition means "If the Crouch animation is NOT playing."

The problem you are experiencing is because the conditions to make the player move are always true. So every frame, MMF will update the player's movment and make it true.

[Na]

If nothing else, I'll try that, but it doesn't seem like a big enough problem to warrant all that trouble. :/

But this is seriously weird. I mean, before I set the event, you moved at full speed left and right while crouching. After the event was set, if you hold down the crouch button, you move one pixel every... half second or so.

In response to ninja-post
Oh, I'm not using conditions to make the object move. I tried using DavidN's fastloop tutorial thing, but I couldn't fine-tune the speed and jump height. It was just a hassle.

[Na]

No other ideas? I really don't want to start over from scratch here.

[Ausomeman]

Did you try, If <croutch button pressed>,
movement- stop

That was my idea, but I'm a little new.

[mobichan]

If you think adding one extra condition is too much trouble, you are in for a world of hurt making games. :P You probably need to upload your mfa file so we can take a look.

[Na]

I tried adding the "negate" thing someone said a few posts back, but that did nothing.

UGH. Fine. Uploading.

*Link removed, problem fixed*

Uh, is the link supposed to do nothing when you click on it?

EDIT: WAIT.

I started messing around with it a few days ago and saved it. It turns out I DID create a good crouching idea - Its just after you crouch you can't move.

To get to the action, click Kirby, go to its events, and then go to "Misc."

EDIT 2: WAIT AGAIN.

I got it! I got it! It turns out I DID need a "Negate" function! Thank you, Mobichan, you're a life saver!!