2nd Run Attack Won't Work

[seb22a]

Godot Version

4.2

Question

Hello I’m trying to setup the 2nd attack in my run attack chain but the animation won’t play and I can’t really figure out why, any help would be appreciated

attack Code:

AnimationTree:

[herrspaten]

i assume the travel call gets overwritten by the if-else statement in the state_process-method. You have to stop it from traveling while your runattack2 animation is playing. do you have a enter_state-method?

[seb22a]

it gets set in the “GroundState”. Attack() function just sets next_state = attack_state

[herrspaten]

i can give you the ugly solution (which is the easiest to insert), but if you are interested i can give you a better solution.
change your code to the following:

var attack1: bool = false

func state_process(delta):
    print(playback.get_current_node())
    if attack1:
        return

    attack1 = true
    ...

func _on_animation_tree_animation_finished(anim_name):
    if(anim_name == "RunAttack") and attacked:
        playback.travel("RunAttack2")
    else:
        attack1 = false 
        next_state = groundState
    
    if anim_name == "Attack" or anim_name == "RunAttack2":
        attack1 = false
        next_state = ground_state

[seb22a]

Im slightly confused about this implementation as you set attack1 in the delta process won’t it always be true then?
Ill try implement this tomorrow but I would be interested in the better implementation if you have the time, thanks!

[herrspaten]

the better solution depends on your state-machine implementation. can you copy the state-machine here?

The reason this should work is, because in the first call of state-process attack1 is set to false so it basically gets called only once

[seb22a]

Ah I get you, it exits state process on attack1 being true.
here is my state class code:

Here’s my character State machine code:

[herrspaten]

so you do have a on_enter and on_exit-method. Good.
Just put the code from state_process in the on-enter-method of AttackState and remove everything i changed

[seb22a]

ok will try thank you

[seb22a]

ok I’m pretty sure this will work, its just something is currently overriding my attack animations now, so once I figure that out it should be good

[seb22a]

got it working thanks a lot