Animation of the side movement of the character

kihl

I have this code for character movement:

When I press the buttons: up-right, down-right, ... Animation freezes on the first frame "up", "down". How to make the animation not freeze, but play "walking_right", "walking_left"

fire7side

I think what you might do is only change the velocity in the "if" block. Then base the animation on whether the velocity is going only left, or up and left, etc. What you are doing now is making two calls to the animation player on the same frame. Using if's in that block is necessary to do both operations, but it's faster to use if, elif, when deciding on the animation. There are probably other ways of recording both speed and direction that would probably be faster, but anyway, you need to make only one call to the animation player.

elif velocity.x < 0 and velocity.y >0:
	#play("walk_left)

kihl

@fire7side said: I think what you might do is only change the velocity in the "if" block. Then base the animation on whether the velocity is going only left, or up and left, etc. What you are doing now is making two calls to the animation player on the same frame. Using if's in that block is necessary to do both operations, but it's faster to use if, elif, when deciding on the animation. There are probably other ways of recording both speed and direction that would probably be faster, but anyway, you need to make only one call to the animation player.
elif velocity.x < 0 and velocity.y >0:
	#play("walk_left)

When I pinch left-down, sprite freezes on first frame "walking_left" How to fix it?

kihl

I figured out how to do it. Animations should be called not when the button is pressed, but when the coordinates change. As fire7side wrote.

@fire7side said: I think what you might do is only change the velocity in the "if" block. Then base the animation on whether the velocity is going only left, or up and left, etc. What you are doing now is making two calls to the animation player on the same frame. Using if's in that block is necessary to do both operations, but it's faster to use if, elif, when deciding on the animation. There are probably other ways of recording both speed and direction that would probably be faster, but anyway, you need to make only one call to the animation player.
elif velocity.x < 0 and velocity.y >0:
	#play("walk_left)

kihl

Wrote this code: And it doesn't work. But if you comment out these lines (which are responsible for the animation "up", "down"): Then everything works except the animation up and down

fire7side

You have to use if/elif/elif/elif because you have to make sure you only call the animation one time. If it's repeated "ifs" you can get duplication. They should be a case with every possibility so only one will play that way. You have to use an equal zero or else do all the "ands" first.

if .x > 0 and .y==0:
	play(walk_right)

otherwise test the angular ones first and if they fail, that will only leave the up/down and vertical.

if .x >0 and .y < 0:
	play(angular motion)
elif .x<0 and .y  > 0:
	play(angular)
...
elif .x > 0:
	play(go right)

You could do it that way too because you eliminated all the cases where both keys could be pressed first so that only leaves one key is pressed, otherwise there would be two trues: one when both keys are pressed, one where one key is pressed and it will run both statements and you would call the animation twice in the same frame.

There is a possibility that it isn't caused by two animations called at the same time, but that would be my first thought.

fire7side

Also, that doesn't leave a choice for no buttons pressed, I'm not sure what would happen then.

kihl

I solved the problem! Here is the code. To run the animation you need to check "Vector2(x, y)"