Can I start a flipbook animation in frame n instead of 1? (SOLVED)

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Let’s say that I have a 2D lateral scroll game with:
A running animation with 20 frames starting with the left feet
A walking animation with 40 frmaes also starting with the left.

I know that If the player is walking and I play running, this one is going to “overwrite” the walking animation. But let’s imagine that our player is about to land it’s right feet while he is walking and I try to run. The problem is that now, suddenly, the player has its left feet on the floor.

Can I make something like this in any way?:
msg.post("#player", “play_animation”, {id =hash( “run”) }, startFrame = 20)

Thank you

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I also wondered about this, but wasn’t able to find a way to do it.

In short I was looking for a way to get and set the current frame of an animation. This would allow seamless transitions between animations, like @jimmyga7 describes above.

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This is currently not possible. You need to create separate animations or do the entire animation through code to achieve this. It’s in the backlog though as its a quite frequent feature request.

4

And If I just made a ton of animations? Like
run_right
run_right_start_5
run_right_start_10
run_right_start_15…

for all the animations, is it just boring or there is gonna be an impact to the performance?
I mean, the atlas will not change but I don’t know.

5

That was what I meant by “create separate animations” :slight_smile:

Boring = yes, performance impact = no

6

Thank you for the help :smiley:

7

Hmm, I thought you could set cursor on these animations as well just like go.animate and spine animations but I cannot find anything about it in the docs.
Maybe that should be added to this as well?

8

I think that go.animate() is to animate properties like position, rotation or size, but I am not sure @britzl have to know it for sure.

EDIT: Oh fuck!! That was fast :rofl:

9

Yep, it’s in the backlog IIRC

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