I have a pushing block mechanic almost working in my game, but I'm about to drop it as I've not been able to correct this animation problem with it. It's been a problem for weeks. Here's a screenshot of the events:
As you can see, there is an event which sets his animation to "Pushing" when overlapping a block, and another event that sets his animation to "Pushing (Stopped)" when overlapping a block. It's meant to display the correct animation based on weather the player is holding down the movement buttons, or if they're not holding them down.
At the moment, which ever animation started playing first takes priority, and it will not switch to the other one when pressing/releasing the keys. Any ideas on how I can correct this?
My guess would be that it's related to the size of your actual animation frames - so once the character switches to one of the pushing animations, they no longer overlap the block.
I always use embedded detectors to avoid that sort of problem, as the collision area then doesn't change depending on the animation (disabling fine collision detection is similar).
btw: Don't post screenshots from the event editor - a bunch of big ticks tell us nothing. Try the event list editor instead (in fact, I'd recommend you don't even use the event editor - the event list editor is so much better).
I have a detector set up that is which the platform movement is set to, then the animation is a separate active over the top of it. It's large enough to always overlap the box. I don't think anyone can help me with this, my Animations events list has gotten huge and although it's commented it's still very confusing.
I'll remember about the event list from now on. Really I was posting it just so you could see the event, as I always struggle to type them out accurately.
Edit:
I've just edited this post about 3 times with different test results. Almost got it working, but only from one side, and with events/actions that seemingly shouldn't have worked. I've deleted the entire mechanic now. I might try and implement it again from scratch at some point, but this current method was incredibly messed up. Ahh well...
The only other thing I can think of would be to try and separate the conditions and actions, so you test all the conditions before carrying out any of the actions - just to be sure that events aren't influencing one another.
I don't know if that would help, but it might be worth a try...
+ Always
-> Player: Set Push to 0
+ Player overlapping Block
-> Player: Set Push to 1
+ Moved left
-> Player: Add 2 to Push
+ Moved right
-> Player: Add 4 to Push
+ Player: Push = 1
-> Player: Set animation to Pushing(Stopped)
-> etc...
+ Player: Push = 3
-> Player: Set animation to Pushing(Left)
-> etc...
+ Player: Push = 5
-> Player: Set animation to Pushing(Right)
-> etc...
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Edited by -Liam-