Player character gets "stuck" on a particular animation

Dank

The player character can run, jump, shoot, and climb ladders. When she shoots, she's supposed to maintain her shooting pose for a brief moment regardless of whatever else she's doing at the same time. She does all that except when she's on a ladder. When she shoots from a ladder, she gets "stuck" on the shooting animation until she does something else, but I would like her to get back into her normal ladder-climbing pose after that brief moment and also pause her climbing animation while she's not moving on a ladder.

Here's the project folder for reference: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/380svuxx6np0rto/AADfiomUSkPcQXR21aI7ELD-a?dl=0

The animation is done under _process() in witch.gd. I think it has something to do with the call to AnimationPlayer.stop(), but I thought the animation logic would nullify the condition that ends up calling that. What am I doing wrong?

godotDcoding

I took a quick look, but nothing's jumping out at me.

Suggestion: Set some break points and step through in debug mode. Watch to see if any animation variables are getting values you're not expecting.

FopenP

@Dank said: When she shoots from a ladder, she gets "stuck" on the shooting animation until she does something else

In witch.gd I commented the following lines: 55, 56, 57 and now it works as expected. Correct?

EDIT: but the animation continues. So I can't be more in help. Maybe adding another animation, like climb_stop.

Dank

@godotDcoding said: I took a quick look, but nothing's jumping out at me.

Suggestion: Set some break points and step through in debug mode. Watch to see if any animation variables are getting values you're not expecting.

Thank you for this because it helped me figure out what the problem was. The AnimationPlayer doesn't update the frame until the next run through process, so it was seeing that the animation was already set to "climb" and stopping the animation before it could update on the next frame.

I solved the issue by adding a new boolean and having the animation, itself, switch it on at an arbitrary point early in the animation and then having the shooting function switch it off.

Thanks, all, for the help!