#Issue while playing scene.
fathom merlin
frozen river
Right there in the video you can see the difference; in the video it's .playing = true but you did .play = true
fathom merlin
Right there in the video you can see the difference; in the video it's `.playing...
he said it was the same, and if I use playing it doesn't work.
I'm using Godot 4, he's using Godot 3 I believe
the think is that it was working before and now it isn't
frozen river
Ah. In Godot 4 .play is a function here, and you pass it a string with the name of the animation you want to play.
fathom merlin
this project has 6 animations for the enemies, and it's supposed to be random. What do I do?
frozen river
You could move the .play() call until after you assign the animation, and then not pass a string in. If you don't pass anything in it will resume whatever animation it is currently playing - the one that you just directly assigned it.
Alternatively, you could pick a random animation and then just pass that into the .play() call, potentially shortening all 3 lines into a single line.
fathom merlin
I'll try a single animation to see if it works
It opens now but
it says that now, and no matter what animation I select it just shows one of them
frozen river
Remove the = true part. You're just calling a function, not assigning a value.
fathom merlin
well, I said animation, but it isn't even moving
fathom merlin
Remove the ` = true` part. You're just calling a function, not assigning a value...
Now there's a different error
frozen river
That's not an error, that's a breakpoint. You told it to pause on that line. Just remove the breakpoint by clicking on the icon to the left of the number.
Here, I believe this line should randomly pick one of the animations and play it, replacing all 3 lines you have there.
$AnimatedSprite2D.play(Array($AnimatedSprite2D.sprite_frames.get_animation_names()).pick_random())
I'll try this. I clicked the left icon but it didn't do anything
fathom merlin
Here, I believe this line should randomly pick one of the animations and play it...
nope
frozen river
That one line should replace all 3, not just the first.
(And the reason that it's complaining there is that frames was renamed to sprite_frames, as in that line I made)
fathom merlin
so I should probably replace sprite_frames for mob_types
frozen river
You shouldn't need that variable at all. The line I gave you already picks a random animation and plays it.
$AnimatedSprite2D.sprite_frames.get_animation_names() is just getting the list of animation names, like you were doing (but with the one rename so it works in 4.0), then I make it into an array by wrapping it in Array(), so I can add .pick_random() to choose a random name.
fathom merlin
Alr, it's "working" now with your line, so we got some progress, but it doesn't pick a random animation; it keeps to the same one even after closing and opening the scene.
frozen river
How many animations do you have? .pick_random() does exactly as it says, it's picking a random one each time.
fathom merlin
`$AnimatedSprite2D.sprite_frames.get_animation_names()` is just getting the list...
Six for that scene
it just plays the same one each time I run the scene
frozen river
Very interesting results I'm getting here; try removing the randomize() call. In theory it should be doing nothing, but my testing seems to suggest that it's somehow de-randomizing, causing pick_random to always choose the same one.
fathom merlin
Very interesting results I'm getting here; try removing the `randomize()` call. ...
I tried that too and same results
I can send another zip so you can check it by yourself
frozen river
I have to go now, but I could definitely check it when I get back, yes. In the meantime you might try extracting the name picking part and printing that to the console, see if that's the problem.