🔒 Animation won't play

[topaz jay]

In class Player in an update function I made it so an image is supposed to change after some time but id doesnt want to. Can anyone help

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@topaz jay

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[severe sparrow]

Try adding logging or some print statements to check the code flow and why it is not triggering the block of code you want

[arctic siren]

Setting self.counter to 0 at the top of the update method seems off. Do you really intend to reset self.counter ever update? How will it ever reach 10?

[topaz jay]

oooooh bruh. Thanks for pointing it out

[arctic siren]

When debugging something like this, besides the logging the other person suggested (logging counter, the main variable involved, would have pointed out the problem), look at each line of the function and say what its purpose is. If you had done that for the update function, you would have said "reset self.counter to 0" on the second line in, and that may have tipped you off.

This is typicaly called "rubber duck debugging".

[topaz jay]

thanks again ill try to use it in the future

[arctic siren]

You're welcome.

@topaz jay FYI, all the global statements you're using are unnecessary.

[topaz jay]

it's not really a project i'll continue working on so it doesn't really change much

[arctic siren]

Ok, I just thought I'd point that out. A lot of people misunderstand how global works.

[topaz jay]

I'm a begginer so I prob also don't know how it fully works, for me rn it's about making the program work no matter how the code looks

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