How to trigger a animation player with area2D

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my version is godot 4.2.2

ı wanted to know the code for how to trigger an animation player when the player steps into the area2D

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If the animation is part of that scene, you can use the $AnimatedSprite2D.play or similar. If you look at any of the Godot game tutorials on YouTube you can re-use the character animation code.

Is that what you’re asking? Or something else?

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its just that ı have tried many times and they generally failed, ıll give you the code ı used so you can maybe help me with what ım missing

it was useally like this:
extends Area2D

func on_body_entered(body):
animation_player.play(“flying”)

but ı think ı kinda realise what ım missing, but to make sure can you check if my mistake is what ı think it is?

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Is the on_body_entered triggering? Put a print or print_debug there to make sure.

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ı did and its not, but ı think the problem is because ı didn’t put the animation player variable

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You don’t need to set a variable - you can call the animation directly.

		$AnimatedSprite2D.play("walk_right")

Try dragging and dropping the animation node in to your script to check the naming/reference/etc.

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okay ıll try it rq

ı checked it and no its not working…

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Is the animation in the same scene? If it’s in a different scene it’s harder to get working.

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yea, ı took an animatiblebody2D from another scene and then added area2Dand animationplayer once ı put it into the main scene

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This is how I triggered an animation from another scene. $death_fade is the scene which plays a fade to black. Hoping this makes sense.

@onready var SceneTranAnim = $death_fade/AnimationPlayer

print("!!YOU DEAD FROM ALPACA!!")
SceneTranAnim.play("death_fade")
await get_tree().create_timer(2).timeout
self.queue_free()
get_tree().change_scene_to_file("res://scenes/dead_from_alpaca.tscn")
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but the things is that the animation isn’t from from another scene

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Keep working on it. You’ll get there!

Is the debug or terminal showing an error?

Maybe another animation is taking over after the first frame…

Also - can you post more of your coding? Make sure you use the Preformatted Text option when you do.

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get a reference to the animation player then on_body_entered / area entered just do you're_anim_ref.play("you're animation")

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extends Area2D

@onready var animation_player = $"../AnimationPlayer"

func on_body_entered(body):
       animation_player.play("flying")
       print("ım flyingggg") # this part is just to get feedback if it works
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already tryied, didn’t work for some reason

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check if the animation_player path is correct the signal is connected and if the “flying” animation exists

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I DİD İT
ı think the problem was that ı didn’t give the area2D a variable, cause when ı gave it a variable it worked. thanks for all the help

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Can you share your code? I’d love to see how you made it work.

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extends Area2D

@onready var area_2d = $“.”
@onready var animation_player = $“…/AnimationPlayer”

func _on_body_entered(body):
animation_player.play(“flying”)
queue_free() # this is to delete the area2D so the animation doesn’t resets

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I’m not sure you need the @onready - just var by itself should work

And I don’t think you need this line - try commenting it out and see if it still works.

@onready var area_2d = $“.”