How to show animation for a landing delay even if the player is holding left or right.

I'm making a simple platformer and i made it so when the character lands he is delay for a short time before he can move again. It works fine but the animation for landing doesn't show if you hold left or right, and just displays the idle animation.

I tried to fix by making it so if you hold an arrow key and land it will play the animation too, but it didn't work.

I think it is because of the "On stopped / is on floor" condition, try to disable this event and check the result

this method works but when the platformer lands he doesn't do the Landing animation right away, he stays in the idle animation for around a full second. Ill screenshot again just incase its wrong.

You could use a timer to handle this.

Add the timer behaviour to your player object.

Playerbox 'On Platform Landed' - Start timer "landing_delay" for 3 seconds (once only)

-------------------------------- Playerbox Start Ignoring Platform user input

Playerbox 'Is Timer "landing_delay" Running'

<sub event> Trigger Once - Set animation to "Landing" (play from beginning)

<sub event> On animation "Landing" finished - Set animation to "Idle" (play from beginning)

Playerbox 'On Timer "landing_delay" - Playerbox Stop ignoring platform user input

Then you would add the inverted condition: 'Playerbox 'Is Timer "landing_delay" Running' to all of your other player animation calls to make sure that none of them override the landing_delay animations.

You shouldn't need a timer for this; instead of using "On stopped" to set the animation, use "is on floor / is not moving / "Land" animation is not playing / Trigger once " and set the idle animation and controls enabled from here

ty ythis worked like a charm. invert is really useful, gotta remember that

You shouldn't need a timer for this; instead of using "On stopped" to set the animation, use "is on floor / is not moving / "Land" animation is not playing / Trigger once " and set the idle animation and controls enabled from here