Animation

coosadog

This cat game has 4 animations, left, right, up, down. I've tested them individually and all work just fine. However, if I place them all in the game I never get but one to execute. And, that one that does is the first one in the animation list. Like this:

[CatAnimSet]
AnimationList = CatWalkUp#
CatIdleUp#
CatWalkDown#
CatIdleDown#
CatWalkLeft#
CatIdleLeft

LinkList = CatWalkUpLoop#
CatIdleUpLoop#
CatWalkDownLoop#
CatIdleDownLoop#
CatWalkLeftLoop#
CatIdleLeftLoop

With it like that CatWalkUp will always be executed no matter what I do. Here's some code for switching:

else if (orxInput_IsActive("Moveright"))
  {
     player1.dir = plrRT;
     orxObject_GetPosition(player1.obj,&player1.pos);
     player1.pos.fX+=2;
     orxObject_SetPosition(player1.obj,&player1.pos);
     if (!player1.moving)
     {
        orxObject_SetFlip(player1.obj,orxTRUE,orxFALSE);
        eResult = orxObject_SetTargetAnim(player1.obj, "CatWalkLeftLoop");
        player1.moving = orxTRUE;
     }
  }

Now, the cat will actually move in the correct direction on MoveRight, but the animation it executes stays the same.

What am I doing wrong here??

sausage

CatWalkLeftLoop is not an animation so you can't call it with orxObject_SetTargetAnim. The loop is a link.

The link tells the current animation where to go when it finishes.

In the case of CatWalkLeftLoop, when the CatWalkLeftAnim animation finishes, do CatWalkLeftAnim again.

Also, you don't need to do orxObject_SetFlip, you can just add Flip in your config.

I reckon take another look at offical tutorial 4: http://orx-project.org/wiki/en/orx/tutorials/anim, also the code and ini that goes with them are in the tutorial and also in the orx you have downloaded.

So basically, every animation needs to have a path to go to another animation when it finishes, even if it's just an idle like:

[WalkRightLoop]
Source      = WalkRight
Destination = WalkRight

[WalkRight2IdleRight]
Source      = WalkRight
Destination = IdleRight
Property    = immediate; <= If you remove this property, the animation won't be cut to go immediately back to idle
Priority    = 9

[IdleRight]
; Our idle animation is only one frame here, that lasts for 0.05s
KeyData1      = AnimRight6
KeyDuration1  = 0.1

[WalkRightLoop]
Source      = WalkRight
Destination = WalkRight

Takes a bit to get your head around at first, but once you do, the possibilities are huge, and the headache of complex animation switching is taken care of. No code needed.

coosadog

Actually, this was built by studying the tutorial. Would you be so kind as to look at this? This is my catwalkleft.ini file which is included after the other I posted:

;First, we need to define an animation set that will contain the whole graph for our specific object's animations.

[CatAnimLeft1@CatFullGraphic]
Texture     = ../data/catwalk-0.png
 
[CatAnimLeft2@CatFullGraphic]
Texture     = ../data/catwalk-1.png
 
[CatAnimLeft3@CatFullGraphic]
Texture     = ../data/catwalk-2.png

[CatAnimLeft4@CatFullGraphic]
Texture     = ../data/cat-idle-left.png

[CatIdleLeft]
KeyData1      = CatAnimLeft4
KeyDuration1  = 0.1

[CatWalkLeft]
DefaultKeyDuration  = 0.3
KeyData1            = CatAnimLeft1
KeyData2            = CatAnimLeft2
KeyData3            = CatAnimLeft3
KeyData4            = CatAnimLeft2

[CatIdleLeftLoop]
Source      = CatIdleLeft
Destination = CatIdleLeft
Property    = immediate;  <= If you remove this property, the animation won't be cut to go immediately back to idle

[CatWalkLeftLoop]
Source      = CatWalkLeft
Destination = CatWalkLeft

coosadog

oops, I left this out. I could put the whole thing here but it's getting quite large.

[catObject]
Graphic = catGraphic
AnimationSet = CatAnimSet
Position = (0.0, 140.0, -0.2)
Pivot = top left
Scale = (2.0,2.0,0.0)
;Color = (255, 0, 0)
;Alpha = 0.0
Rotation = 0
Body = catBody

sausage

That seems ok, I think the only thing missing is telling the graph how to get to walk, and how to get to idle:

[CatIdleLeftToWalkLeft] 
Source      = CatIdleLeft 
Destination = CatWalkLeft 
 
[CatWalkLeftToIdleLeft] 
Source      = CatWalkLeft 
Destination = CatIdleLeft 

That should sort it out.

If not, maybe post the whole thing and I'll dig through.