Animation being overwritten 1/2 way through being run

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#1

I’n my game when the player isn’t moving i’d like it to be in the idle animation but when moving be in the run animation. I achieved it through this code:

if self.velocity == 0 then
    play_animation(self, anim_idle)
else
    play_animation(self, anim_run)
end

But when the player hits an object i want it to go into the hurt animation, this is done in a different subroutine to the above code

play_animation(self, anim_idle)

But i found that eventhough it seems to be coded correctly the hurt animatin doesn’t run, i have changed the code so that the run animation code looks like this:

if self.velocity.x > 0 then 
    play_animation(self, anim_run)
end

this works fine as the player runs when moving and is hurt when collising with an object. But i was wondering if i could still impliment the idle animation after the hurt animation or if the player has stopped moving to make the game look smoother. Has this happened to anyone else?

#2 
if self.velocity == 0 then
   play_animation(self, anim_idle)
else
   play_animation(self, anim_run)
end

Think about what this part is doing. Every time this code is run, the current animation will always be set to either anim_idle or anim_run, completely ignoring anything else happening in the game. A quick solution is to add a flag like self.is_hurt and check for it when setting the current animation:

if self.is_hurt then
   play_animation(self, anim_hurt)
elseif self.velocity == 0 then
   play_animation(self, anim_idle)
else
   play_animation(self, anim_run)
end

Just keep in mind that this can get very messy in a bigger project with lots of different animations!

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#3

yeah it seems like a lot of variables to keep tack of. I tried a few different ways but just decided in the end to instead have a sound that plays when the player hits an enemy instead of an animation. Thanks for the help tho it’s really appreciated

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