creating actor,changing animation immediately - doesnt work?

[sonicfire]

hi folks!

another little problem here that i cant fix and dont know why:

i have an "explosion"-actor. it holds 10 animations of little explosions. i assigned the first one to it.

now, i create this actor somewhere in a game when i hit a certain object. no problems so far. trouble starts here:

i use a simple

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temp = floor(rand(9));
if (temp = 0)
{
    ChangeAnimation("Event Actor", "bluexeplo1_", FORWARD);
}
if (temp = 1)
{
    ChangeAnimation("Event Actor", "bluexeplo2_", FORWARD);
}

(...) and so on ....



in the Actor Create-Event. So hopefully you get the picture.

The problem is however, it simply doesn´t change its animation. Am i thinking totally wrong? I though immediately after the actor has been created it should have "become" a new animation ...
Sadly, it always just plays the animation that i´ve selected in GE itself....

Fun thing is: I tried the same using Sounds (to play random explosion-sounds and this DOES work!

Can anybody enlighten me, please?

[sonicfire]

Wait a minute ... could it be because of the "Event Actor"?
Since its only created ... um, does that cound as an event? I mean... damn, hard to explain in english

EDIT: The Creator-Actor that creates THIS explosion-actor is the Event Actor in this very moment?! Could that be my mistake?

[d-soldier]

Try this in the create-actor script:

int n;
n=rand(30);
if (n<=10 && n>=0)
{
//INSERT CHANGEANIMATION SCRIPT HERE
}
if (n<=20 && n>=10)
{
//INSERT CHANGEANIMATION SCRIPT HERE
}
if (n<=31 && n>=20)
{
//INSERT CHANGEANIMATION SCRIPT HERE
}

Be sure that the actor has all these different animations you under it's ANIMATION drop-down button, and modify the "//INSERT" part to be a "CHANGEANIMATION SCRIPT" applying a different animation (animindex) for each of 'em. see if that works better then your other code.

[sonicfire]

thanks again!
will give it a go!

[Kodo]

sonicfire, there are problems with your conditional statements!

if (temp = 0)
{
ChangeAnimation("Event Actor", "bluexeplo1_", FORWARD);
}
if (temp = 1)
{

should be written

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if (temp == 0)
{
    ChangeAnimation("Event Actor", "bluexeplo1_", FORWARD);
}
if (temp == 1)
{


Note that == should be used when comparing values, = on its own just assigns the value. So what you are actually doing with your code is just assigning values and not testing them!

[sonicfire]

Oops! I did it again Sorry for this! My fault, thanks very much!