How do I set animation/change animation of sprite within events?

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  • Hello I am new to construct 3 and i am learning step by step.

    I have got into a problem today, i have 3 animations left, right, idle. My sprite

    is idle when its not moving, walks right when its moving right. However I cant get the animation to show

    my sprite going left and character does not turn around.

    The image of my events below, i know i have the condition 8 direction moving for both right and left but i didn't see any other condition such as "is moving left" set animation to left for example.

    Any help appreciated thank you.

  • You should use the keyboard for this:

    When key arrow right is pressing -> play "RightAnimation"

    When key arrow left is pressing -> play "LeftAnimation"

    When any key released -> play "Idle"

  • Also, are you sure you need separate left and right animations? Maybe you can simply mirror the character sprite (flip horizontally).

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  • Thank you guys for your replies.

    MAVERICK - Thank you, your keyboard suggestion helped me out a lot and made me understand more things.

    However one issue is that once left key is released my sprite goes straight back to looking right. How do i fix this so when i press left arrow key and release it the sprite stays looking left. I tried using else etc but do not know how to do this.

    - Thanks for the suggestion, however I do not know how to do this, could u give me an example like maverick has? When i tried it the sprite just turned around upside down and stayed like that.

  • You have 1 animation Idle only so if you release any key, it will play that animation.

    To solve it:

    If left key released, play idle and set mirror is true.

    When pressing Right key set mirror is false.

  • You have 1 animation Idle only so if you release any key, it will play that animation.

    To solve it:

    If left key released, play idle and set mirror is true.

    When pressing Right key set mirror is false.

  • You have 1 animation Idle only so if you release any key, it will play that animation.

    To solve it:

    If left key released, play idle and set mirror is true.

    When pressing Right key set mirror is false.

  • When key arrow right is pressing -> Player set not mirrored

    When key arrow Left is pressing -> Player set mirrored

    And then you'll need just one walking animation.

  • Thank you guys helped a lot.

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