Player Controls

Hi there,

Just looking for a suggestion to a problem i am having.

I am creating a small demo and have a model walking using the following code

If KeyDown(200) Then
  If player_walking=0
      Animate player_hero,1,.3,1
      player_walking=1
     player_running=0
  EndIf
  MoveEntity player_hero, 0, 0,1
Else
  If player_walking=1
      Animate player_hero,0,.3,15
      player_walking=0
     player_running=0
  Else
      If Animating(player_hero)=0 Then Animate player_hero,0,.3,16
  EndIf
EndIf

This works fine, however when i want to have the player running by using "UP Cursor key"+"Shift" then the running animation simply freezes

Here is the code i have for my hero_control_movement() function

If KeyDown(200) Then
  If player_walking=0
      Animate player_hero,1,.3,1
      player_walking=1
     player_running=0
  EndIf
  MoveEntity player_hero, 0, 0,1
Else
  If player_walking=1
      Animate player_hero,0,.3,15
      player_walking=0
     player_running=0
  Else
      If Animating(player_hero)=0 Then Animate player_hero,0,.3,16
  EndIf
EndIf

If (KeyDown(200)) And (KeyDown(54)) Then 
  If player_running=0 
      Animate player_hero,1,.1,2 
      player_running=1 
      player_walking=0
  EndIf 
  MoveEntity player_hero, 0, 0,2 
Else 
  If player_running=1 
      Animate player_hero,1,.3,15 
      player_running=0 
      player_walking=0
  Else 
      If Animating(player_hero)=0 Then Animate player_hero,1,.3,16 
  EndIf 
EndIf 

Does this look right to you? Can someone please give any pointers.

Much appreciated :)

Kind Regards

Every time the up key is pressed it starts animating the run sequence over and over.

You need to set flag to say when the key is pressed and unset it when the key is released. This way you only use the animate command once.

Hey Rob

Thanks for that, now working :)

Excellent

Kind Regards

You might try changing to key hit vice keydown see demo code below

; KeyHit Example Press down key with in time period
; to execute code loop

While (1)

; Set up the timer

current=MilliSecs()


; Wait 1 seconds

While MilliSecs() < current+1000
;waiting xx millisec
Wend

hitcount = KeyHit(208)

If (hitcount) Then

Print "Executing code loop - key pressed " + hitcount + " times"

Else

Print "Key not pressed during last time period "

EndIf

Print

Wend

It's not a great idea, I think, to have a 1s wait each loop.

I only put the 1sec wait into to show the effect of using
keyhit vice keydown not to actually use in game code.