#🔒 How do I play this series of images on pygame as an animation?

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bright hull
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if self.value >= len(self.blast_images):
                        self.value = 0

                    cur_image = self.blast_images[self.value]
                    self.screen.blit(cur_image, self.pos)
                    self.value += 1

I have a list called blast_images with all the 11 animation images i want loaded, but when i call this, the animation doesnt seem to work properly(i have set value to be 0 on the global function)

Thanks in advance

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lapis plinth
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Can you give the entire code? Your code seems to be right, maybe there is something that doesn't make it right. Also what do you mean by animation not working?

bright hull
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Okay

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The animation plays one frame every time I click the mouse

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Oh I should have mentuoned this, i am calling the MOUSE event function and playing this animation under that

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!paste

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lapis plinth
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Ah I see, maybe there is something wrong with how you update your character. The mouse event only runs when you have a mouse event, so when the mouse moves, it updates it. I suppose you want your character to run even if the mouse is not moving?

bright hull
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my charater runs based on wasd controls, i am trying to have an attack based on mouse clicks, not movements, so far everything but the animation seems to work properly

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the attack is a blast attack and plays this blast animation at the point of clicking, which this does do properly, however the animation comes only for a single frame? I think thats whats happening, everytime i click, only one frame comes, but in the order "right" order

lapis plinth
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Ah ok I get it now

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So my method to do it is to have an update method to handle all of the character interactions

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then I would have another method in the keyboard/mouse events function to run the function, the function just changes the state of my character.

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So when it updates the character, the frames it is going to use has already been changed because of the function that changes its state

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The problem with your approach is that when you attack, it is waiting for your keyboard/mouse event

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So it will not run the frames simultaneously

bright hull
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Oh

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Okay. Let me try that and get back to you

lapis plinth
bright hull
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Okay. Thank you so much!

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