Disabling triggering the attack animation while attack is already playing

SwansterTruck

I'm still relatively new to coding and even newer to GDScript, but I'm stuck on a small problem.

While my player attack animation is playing, I am able to cancel out of it in the middle with either any other input based animation, as well as the attack animation.

My question is, is there any built in methods to disabling other inputs while an animation is playing, or what logic would be used in doing it manually?

For reference, I'm using AnimationPlayer with a simple state machine.

Excuse my naivety, I'm trying to learn through solving problems myself, I'm just a little stuck on this one

TwistedTwigleg

Welcome to the forums @SwansterTruck!

I do not think there is anything built-in to disable input or lock an animation, but since you are using a state machine and an AnimationPlayer node, I would recommend using a bool to "lock" the animation. You'd just need to add a condition that checks to see if the boolean has locked the animation before calling play on the AnimationPlayer node. Then you can unlock animations again by changing the boolean, either in the state machine or when the animation is finished using the animation_finished signal in the AnimationPlayer.

SwansterTruck

@TwistedTwigleg

using the animation_finished signal in the AnimationPlayer.

I'm not sure why I didn't think of the animation_finished signal, I remember bookmarking it in my mind some time ago 'cause I thought it'd be useful in the future. I'll mess with it next chance I get. Thanks!