I'm having trouble getting a few different animations to play by turning the crank while next to (and facing) a tile which also looks like a crank.
The arrow tile represents the player's position and direction. However, I can't even get the initial animation of the crank tile turning to start.
Player:
on crank do
if event.room=="crank_test" then
if event.px==2 then
if event.py==4 then
if event.dx==-1 then
acting = 2
act
acting = 0
end
end
end
end
end
Crank tile ("cranking" is 18 frames)
on interact do
if acting==1 then
// say something
elseif acting==2 then
call "openGate"
play "cranking" then
swap "cranked"
end
end
end
gateClosed1 through 4 ("gateOpening1 through 4" are 14 frames each)
on openGate do
wait 4 then
play "gateOpening#" then
swap "gateOpen#"
end
end
end
The gate opening animation is delayed, because I want the player to turn the crank on the Playdate for a bit before the gate starts to open. Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong here?
I managed to solve this.
Player:
on crank do
acting = 2
act
acting = 0
end
The confirm script I'm using sets acting to 1, then acts, then sets acting back to 0 like the script above. I thought this was interesting because now there's three ways for the player to interact with sprites. Bumping into a sprite will interact if acting is 0, pressing A will interact if acting is 1, and turning the crank will interact if acting is 2. This means you could make an NPC say 3 different things depending on how you interact with them, or objects can behave differently depending on how you interact with them.
Crank Tile:
on interact do
if acting==1 then
// say something
elseif acting==2 then
ignore
play "cranking" then
swap "cranked"
listen
end
tell 1,1 to
play "gateOpening1" then
swap "gateOpen1"
end
end
tell 2,1 to
play "gateOpening2" then
swap "gateOpen2"
end
end
tell 1,2 to
play "gateOpening3" then
swap "white"
end
end
tell 2,2 to
play "gateOpening4" then
swap "gateOpen4"
end
end
end
end
Instead of using wait to delay the "gateOpening" animations like I had planned, I decided to add some extra frames to the beginning of the animations so that the gate doesn't start moving right away.
I also added ignore and listen so the player can't move away from the crank tile while the animations are still playing.
However, if possible I'd rather use call to trigger a custom event to make the gate open, so I could move all the code for opening the gate to the "gateClosed" tiles (like in my initial post). I've tried to do this a few times with no success yet.