Idle Animation

I'm trying make my sprite do one of 3 animations randomly when it is left idle. I used the tutorial at scirra.com/tutorials/440/call-random-animations-with-an-array and it is not working.

My array is named: IdleAnimationSelect

The name of the sprite is "PlayerAnimations" the names of the idle animations within it are: Still, Bubble and Sleep.

Here is my code:

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Why not just set animation to choose("Still", "Bubble", "Sleep") ? I'm not sure what exactly your problem is though as you didn't say what's wrong.

Edit: You're checking for IdleTick to be >= 20 which is only a 3rd of a second. Try increasing that to at least 2 or 3 seconds

I did try - "if platform is not moving (also tried if 8 direction is not moving), wait 5 seconds, set animation to Bubble, wait 5 seconds, set animation to Sleep" but the animation would restart unpredictably during gameplay.

Having a random animation play after a certain amount of idle time seemed like a great idea but I'm not clear why this is not working. I set the timer low so I can see the result right away when I'm testing it. It was set to 300 and it still did not work.

the problem is that after the set amount of idle time, those "idle" animations are not playing randomly or otherwise at all.

— do you know anything about this?