STENCYL AS ANIMATION HOW TO
STENCYL AS ANIMATION CODE

STENCYL AS ANIMATION CODE

I discuss this in some form in this tutorial, if you want to take a closer look (this only deals with one behavior making requests, but you can hopefully get the general idea of what’s going on).īut beyond that, its really up to just designing your code right. Essentially, all the other behaviors put in requests to this behavior, and it decides which animation gets priority and plays. This oversight behavior is meant to be the only behavior that can change animations directly. One trick is to have some sort of animation management behavior, where all behaviors communicate with one oversight behavior. Its not practical for you to stash all your animation changes in the walking behavior if you also have jumping and sliding. If your actor has a medium to large number of animations, things get trickier. Put all the animations in the same behavior and make sure you have set up proper conditional checking (see Stencyl for Noobs boolean guide) to make sure the right one plays. If your actor only has a small number of animations (like four-way walking animations and nothing else), that isn’t so bad. If two animation change blocks are located in two separate behaviors, how do you know which one will be seen first and which one will be seen last? Things can get messy quick, and discovering the order that scattered blocks will execute in can be very difficult, if not almost impossible at times. So essentially, when a walking, jumping, and crawling animation change are put here and there, whichever one executed last is the one that “wins”.Īgain, simple concept, but making it all work can be more difficult than you think. That means when Stencyl updates your actors with recent changes, whichever animation change was seen last is the one that gets played.

STENCYL AS ANIMATION HOW TO

So let’s discuss some basic concepts and tactics on animations and how to “keep the peace” with them.įirst and most importantly, animation changes are a “last wins” deal. Awkward…Įssentially, you need to figure out a way to issue your animation change blocks their appropriate orders and make them behave together as well. One asks for an animation change, but then another tries to do the same thing, then animation carnage ensues while your poor old actor may start rapidly switching between his crawl and idle animation while flying through the sky. If you’ve read some of my other Stency for Noobs guides, you may already recognize the concept of what’s going on: these animation change blocks are fighting with each other.

You throw down a half-dozen animation change blocks into your code (running, jumping, idle, etc.), and then are taken aback when you see your character having what looks like a frenzied panic attack as he rapidly flashes a spray of animations. And some of you know exactly what I’m talking about from your own experience. Simple command, but using it is not as straightforward as you think.

Stencyl as animation