Is there a way to recall the current animation set on a sprite?

TNizz1e

I am setting the animation of the player in the same way as the demo, although I have all animations on the same sprite. The only issue is that whilst you are holding down a key, is seems to run through the setAnimation code over and over, which keeps resetting the animation back to the start and causing a jerky animation.

I was just wanting a way that I could say - if the animation isn't currently set to what it should be, then set it, if is it, leave it alone. If there isn't anything built into gQ itself I'm thinking the best way to do this would be testing the background-image property of the sprite?

Thanks in advance for any help :)

Tom

selim

Hi Tom,

Sadly there is currently no way to retrieve the current animation. The most common way to avoid the problem you described is to use a variable to hold the current state of the player (for example "idle" and "walking") and only set the animation when the state changes.

For example if the player press a key, you check if the state = "idle" then you change the animation. If the state is "walking" you don't set the animation.

In most case you will need the state variable for you game logic anyway.