#1, by chrisgTuesday, 07. April 2020, 08:41 4 years ago
Is there a way to play an animation, or some effect when an item is first given to the player?
I can add something to the action when the item is given, and i think i can set an active state of a button in the inventory, but i dont know how to work out which inventory slot the item is at?
#3, by afrlmeTuesday, 07. April 2020, 12:49 4 years ago
If you only add an animation & no static image then it would only play the animation, & if you were to add a bit of Lua script to the animation then you could force it to loop a specific frame or loop between a specific range of frames.
Also has recently been discussing on our discord about a system where the item sprite pops up on the screen (above the characters head in their case) briefly before fading out, whenever the player picks up a new item. My point is that you have various solutions you could try implementing.
There is a bunch of sample code but I only needed to use a single line of it, on my final frame of the animation
On the last frame, I clicked on edit (pencil), add action, action type is 'Execute script'
The full contents of the script is: "getObject("ActiveAnimations[add item name here]"):setValue(VAnimationFirstFrame, add last frame number here for the item)"
Once you have done that, the animation plays once, and stops on the last frame when it is added to your inventory - so you can do a few frames to draw attention and then stop on the normal icon.
#6, by afrlmeWednesday, 08. April 2020, 12:03 4 years ago
The only issue with that solution is that whenever the game is loaded & interface is shown it will likely play the animation fully again. Also you are using the old longhand scripting method, but that doesn't really matter.
A cleaner solution would be to force the first frame of the animation & maybe use a condition or value, & check in the first frame if the condition or value = something & if not then change it to that else force it to loop the first frame only.
So your action block for the first frame would look something like this...
if conditions "example" is false set condition "example" to true else execute a script >
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