A question regarding attacking/animations/variables

[Klownzilla]

Hey! I know my way around pretty good in fusion 2/2.5. I'm not really a coder by nature though and, even though I always get stuff working I might tend to do things in a clumsy way maybe so I thought I should ask here before diving in to my battle system for my game.

In my rpg you will be able to have different firearms. Handgun,shotgun,assaultrifle etc. What is the best way to work with the attackanimations? "The only way this can be done" in my head is that you have a weapons variable. 1=handgun,2=shotgun and so on. So upon pressing the attack button on the GUI plus weapons variable=1 the handgun animation plays, if you press attack and variable=2 the shotgun animation plays instead. Is there a simpler way to do this so I don't have to make all those events "if weapons variable=1,=2,=3,=4" etc. could I save myself some time by doing it differently? I must tell MMF somehow to play the correct animations upon pressing the attack button of course but maybe someone, more experienced clicker can tell me a better way.

[Del_Duio]

My current RPG is sort of similar in that the hero can use many weapons and has many different animations.

The only way I could figure it out though was to use the long way. Very short story of it looks like this:

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If animation(Sword) isn't playing
+animation(Axe) isn't playing
+all the other weapons aren't playing
+walking or jumping animations aren't playing
-> Change animation to "Stopped"

Then you have:

If weaponEquipped = "Sword" and player presses the attack button then change animation to "Sword"
If weaponEquipped = "Axe" and player presses the attack button then change animation to "Axe"
and etc for all possible weapons and stuff

And then at the end you have:

If (all possible weapon animations) and (all possible movement animations) are over then
-> Change animation to "Stopped" again

I program a lot like how you sound like you do. You can normally get the job done but it's probably not the best or most efficient way.
We should start a club! LOL

[Klownzilla]

Haha yeah the "bunch of ifs" club :-D oh well it's no big deal really. Sure you will find different weapons but some of them will be the same type so i can use only one shotgun animation even if you have 4 different shotguns. I'm not gonna be THAT picky about it hehe. Thanks for answering :-)

[Del_Duio]

Yeah, like the old "If / then" or "If / Else" or even the very old "Select Case"..
Gheesh I haven't done that sort of programming in more than 10 years easy. I probably forgot it all LOL.