Converting string to animation?

Mistergiving

Hi, I'm a beginner to godot, though have some experience with unity. I'm trying to make a top-down shooter game (similar to Enter the Gungeon), and I wrote some code that gives me the angle of the mouse relative to the player (kidscancode 8-way movement tutorial)

I made some sprites for each direction the character faces, but now the challenge comes from setting the animation for the sprites. I'm currently running a simple state machine with just walk and idle, which would change the animation based on the state, and also what direction the player's mouse points. I have my animation names set to "stateName_direction#", ex. Idle_0 for player facing right and idle. I was wondering if there was any way to do like current_animation = (currentstate.name + "_" + mouseAngle)

I know I can just check which state the player is in, and then check the direction, but it would be much easier to do it this way. Please let me know!

cybereality

Usually you would use an array with discrete values. Like:

var animations = ["idle", "walk", "run"]

And then you can get the name by doing this:

var current_animation = animations[1]     # this is walk

To find the angle you would just need some math depending on what you are doing.

Mistergiving

Thanks for the response, but I have the angle stepified and wrapi'd for values 0-8. Is there any way to read the string Walk_0 as the name of an animation to play?

cybereality

Yes, I was just giving an example. You could do this as well.

var walk_animations = ["Walk_0", "Walk_1", "Walk_2"]

Mistergiving

Thanks, this gives me a better idea of what I could do. For this, I could do something like var current_animation = walk_animations[mouseangle], with mouseangle being anywhere from 0-7 But because walk_animations is a list with indexes, I would have to check each state and play the animation if it was that state. What I want to do is avoid a lot of if statements, and just play the animation named "Walk_0" when I am in the walk state and my mouse is at the 0 angle. I might just be wasting time because my issue can easily be solved with if statements, but I want to know if I can just read [state.name + "_" + str(mousepos)] as the name of the animation I want to play, and play it. Also, how do I do the thing where I put in code like you did?

cybereality

You can post code by putting three tildes (~~~) on a line by themselves directly above and below the code. For your example you could do this:

animated_sprite.play(animation_state + "_" + str(animation_angle))

Where that string could end up being "walk_0" and you have defined "walk_0" as an animation on an AnimatedSprite.

Mistergiving

Thanks man, I appreciate the help :)