Player Tile Swap

Pulp
1

Hey there!

I was attempting a player swap so the player sprite changes based on the direction input. I created the following script, but the sprite only changes when going up and stays that way.

on update do
if event.dy==-1 then
swap "player_up"
if event.dy==1 then
swap "test"
if event.dx==-1 then
swap "player_right"
if event.dx==1 then
swap "player_left"
end
end
end

end
end

Thank you in advance!

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Your if statements are nested, so they don't check for all the conditions in sequence. What you want is something like,

on update do

 if event.dy==-1 then
  swap “player_up”
 elseif event.dy==1 then
  swap “test”
 end

 if event.dx==-1 then
  swap “player_right”
 elseif event.dx==1 then
  swap “player_left”
 end

end

This post includes a demo game that shows how I handle this behavior, btw: Pulp how-to: two-tile-tall player - #3 by Guv_Bubbs

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That make sense.

Thanks for the help!