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[BattleCry]

Hi

I have a problem with the sprites that I use on my objects.

It's that they replay the last sprite before it changes to the next sprite with SetSprite().
This also happens when I call on it using on "variable" even if it isn't supposed to do anything at all with the sprite.

How do I stop this?

Thanks for the help

[Mnemonic]

I'm not sure what you mean. Can you post your script with a commentary?

[BattleCry]

Sure, but I didn't do it before because I don't think it will help.
I know that it might be a Little bit hard to understand what the problem is but I don't know a better way to describe it..

Anyway this is a partion of the code I use and the most weird one when it comes to this problem. The thing is that if I call on "Time-Gun" and dead is not 1, it still replays the previous sprite.

And as I said before it does this whenever I change a sprite.

Code: [Select]

#include "scripts\base.inc"
var tic;
on "Time-Gun"
{
if(this.Dead == 1 && this.Time == 0)
{
this.SetSprite(this.Res);
this.Dead = 0;
}
else if(this.Time == 0)
{
this.Time = 1;
tic = 5;
while(true)
{
Sleep(1000);
tic = tic - 1;
if(tic == 0) break;
}
this.Time = 0;
}
else tic = 5;

}

[Mnemonic]

I still don't get what the problem is, sorry. You say...

The thing is that if I call on "Time-Gun" and dead is not 1, it still replays the previous sprite.

That's normal, isn't it? You're calling the SetSprite method only id Dead is 1. So until you call SetSprite, the original sprite is used.

[BattleCry]

You're calling the SetSprite method only id Dead is 1. So until you call SetSprite, the original sprite is used.

That is correct, but I use sprites that don't normally loop, but when I call on them as with the example of on "Time-Gun" it restarts the sprite it has even if it shouldn't. This is especially annoying when it is supposed to change sprite as it replays the sprite that is sett and then changes sprite.

I know a can fix it in making more endsprites for every animation but I don't got that time.

[Mnemonic]

Restart what sprite? The one you're setting? That's indeed intentional.

[BattleCry]

I still think you're missing the problem, so I'll try to describe it as clearly as I can.

An entity has Sprite "A".

we want it to use an animation contained in sprite "b", so we set it's sprite to "b"... sprite b plays, so far all is well. (in our case the entity is "destroyed", and leaves a small wreck).

Now we want to "restore" the object, using a reversed destruction animation, contained here in sprite "c". Here we get problems, namely that when we set the sprite to C, the entity first plays sprite B again, and then plays sprite c - which as you can imagine, doesn't look all that great.

Is there any way we can circumvent this, or is it just hardcoded into WME that sprites are to behave this way - and in that case, how do you recommend we'd solve it?

[Mnemonic]

Um, can you make a small demo reproducing the behavior you described? Because I just tried it and can't confirm that. The first thing SetSprite does is that it destroys the current sprite, so I don't see how it could be replayed again.