Using the frame number of a sprite animation in a script

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Godot 4.4.1

Situation

Hi, I currently have my character set up with 3 states (1-3 ) and 8 directions (1-8). Every animation has 8 frames, so its 3x a 8x8spritesheet. Every sheet has an identical structure and frame number.

And I have a code segment that translates the variables
vAnimState (integer, 1-3) to vStateName (string) and
vAnimDirection (integer, 1-8) to vDirectionName (string)
to define the animation that shall be played.

Currently I have this code here set up to determine which animation to use:
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*(So in the end it plays for example the animation “animLin_walk_upleft”)

Movement and Animation works so far, but everytime I change the direction, the new animation starts at its first frame. Thanks to the isometric view and only 8 directions and frames its barely noticeable, but therefore it looks a bit like lagging, when the animation is reset at every direction change.

Question

Is there a way to get the number of the current frame thats shown when the direction changes - and to use a frame number to define at which frame the other animation shall resume?

(So I could build a math equation that uses the value of the current animation + current frame nr and the value of the new animation, to define at which frame the new animation should start)

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If your ‘vAnimPlayer’ is an AnimationPlayer node, you can save the ‘current_animation_position’ and use the advance() method after the play:

var currPos = vAnimPlayer.current_animation_position
vAnimPlayer.play("animLin_" + vStateName + "_" + vDirectionName)
vAnimPlayer.advance(currPos)

If it doesn’t work, maybe use the method seek(currPos, true), because it’ll trigger an update.
It’ll work if all animations have the same length (in seconds).

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Sounds good.
I’ll test it and report back :slight_smile:

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Took me a while to figure everything out properly, but it works like a charm :slight_smile:

Thank you!

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