AnimationPlayer Changes Node's Initial Properties?

Geebee

I'm looking for clarification on the AnimationPlayer due to some strange behavior I encountered.

I understand the AnimationPlayer node allows you to design a series of complex actions over a timeline, almost entirely using the IDE instead of scripting complex actions manually. I've found you can test the sequences you design for objects in the editor using the "play animation" control(s). However, when testing an animation, the initial properties of the object affected by the AnimationPlayer seem to get permanently changed, which affects behavior when running the game (demonstration webm in link below, pray you'll excuse the potato recording quality). Now I don't trust using the AnimationPlayer for fear of changing properties I'm counting on being a certain value at game start. Is this the intended behavior? If so, can someone explain why it's designed this way? I've already thought of the workaround of writing an initialization method in the script to make sure properties are what they're supposed to be, but is that really supposed to be necessary?

Demo: https://imgur.com/a/L1o8Ziy

dotted

If I understand correctly, by running the animation from the editor, you see the values remain changed after doing so. I might expect this if an animation runs to completion and its endpoints are different from its start points because of the fact the animation has run in the editor

The real test should be trying a reload of the scene containing the animation. The initial keyframe should restore various properties to their desired values, right?

I would suggest that you can rely on that initial keyframe to do the work for you

Zelta

Could it be that you are not keying your node/animation/action // whatever by default?

If you change the properties of something to key them, you are changing the default properties without the animation node being able to know.

If you are going to use animation, the first thing I would do is key in frame 1 the 'thing' that you are going to key in the next frames. I don't know if I explain myself well, sorry.

I use animation for a lot of things and I have found that it can support many different animations at the same time, at least in my game, which is an isometric rpg, and it is quite loaded.

I trust animation more than tilesets, that gives me problems every day. and the animation lets me copy or modify without problems. but sometimes modifying a tileset is hell on earth