Diffrent Event from Same Key

[GuybrushThreepwood]

Ok. My game is a side scrolling game. As for directions, you use the arrows to move left and right. to attack just turn the direction you want to attack and attack.

[GuybrushThreepwood]

Ok. My game is a side scrolling game. As for directions, you use the arrows to move left and right. to attack just turn the direction you want to attack and attack. and i dont have a direction variable.

[skydereign]

Two posts? Okay, so you mean that when you attack left you press, LEFT and ATTACK. And for right, RIGHT and ATTACK? Or when you are facing right, you attack right, and when you are facing left you attack left?

[GuybrushThreepwood]

when you're facing right you attack right and when facing left you attack left. it's a lot like super smash bros.

[skydereign]

How did you set up the directional attacking? You said you didn't use a variable. You should use the method in the demo and apply it to your working system.

[GuybrushThreepwood]

the attacking is what i need to figure out how to do. as for moving, i dont use scripting i just use different key down events

[skydereign]

What I meant was how do you differentiate the attacks, left and right. Do you have a working separate attacks for each? Or is that the part that you need help with?

[GuybrushThreepwood]

the diffrent attacks are just when he has his sword and when he doesn't have his sword. just one attack for each. it's just getting it on left or right.

[skydereign]

Okay, so then you need to create a variable called direction. On pressing right, set the variable to 1, and when pressing left, set it to -1. Then in the attack script set an if statement for direction==1 and direction==-1. For the direction==-1, change the animation to the left animations.

[GuybrushThreepwood]

as i have mentioned many times before i dont have a clue about scripting so i have no idea where to put any of this and what to do with it. sorry abot asking so much, but could you make me a demo? it would help a lot

[skydereign]

Here, I changed the sprites because I did not want to reflect horizontally framed sprites. You should really learn scripting, it will benefit you greatly, and it is pretty easy with all the help on the forums. By the way, this is very poor scripting, I am busy right now so I did not spend much time on it. Also, I forgot to add hit2_l sprite, but it defaults anyways.

[GuybrushThreepwood]

Thanks a million +1



EDIT:
I just have 1 quik question. i'v got an animation for wen my guy takes out, and puts away his sword. how wud i go about doing this? i gotta figure it out one o theese days, so DON'T GIVE ME A DEMO! just give me the gist of it.

[skydereign]

Put the animation change in the KeyDown(SPACE) event and I believe flip the ready to 0. Also, everything in the KeyDown(SPACE) event should be enclosed in an if statement

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if (ready==1)
{
   //put code here
}

I believe that is all. If not, let me know, or if you would like a better explanation.

[GuybrushThreepwood]

I think i'm gunna take up on ur offer. a better explination would be nice

[skydereign]

Okay. In this demo, I use several variables, one being ready. I use ready to signify the ability for the actor to do an event. So for every event that would change the animation, I set the variable ready to 0.
Actor->KeyDown(SPACE)->Script Editor // This is what is there

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if (sword==0)
{
   sword=1;
   ChangeAnimation("Event Actor", "standsword", FORWARD);
}
if (sword==1)
{
   sword=0;
   ChangeAnimation("Event Actor", "stand", FORWARD);
}

Now, you want it to change animation, so you the animation to the desired one. And to prevent an attack before the animation finishes, you need to set ready to 0. But to pull out your sword, you must be ready to recieve an action, so you would use a conditional to create this effect.

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if (ready==1)
{
if (sword==0)
{
   sword=1;
   ready=0;
   ChangeAnimation("Event Actor", "swordanim", FORWARD);
}
if (sword==1)
{
   sword=0;
   ready=0;
   ChangeAnimation("Event Actor", "standanim", FORWARD);
}
}

There is an event already on the actor's animation finish, that resets ready to 1. Now you could either use variables to do the next part or just use the animationfinish event.
Actor->AnimationFinish(swordanim)-> Set it to change animation to standsword
and another one
Actor->AnimationFinish(standanim)-> Set it to change animation to stand