Is there a known issue with the timer set to every?

LordTarantor

I have an actor and I want it to animate every 6 seconds. the animation only last 2 seconds so I want like 4 seconds of the normal image between the animation.
I also try checking the Run to completion but nothing.

What I am doing is this:
Timer
Every 6 seconds
Animate
I checked the Restore actor image box.

AM I doing something wrong or is there a bug in the timer?

mangaroo

i have never gotten the ANIMATE to work with an every timer myself so you aren't alone on that.

LumpApps

Might be a bug I tried this to let a character blink but in the end I used a change image instead of animation.

gyroscope

Hi LordTarantor, yes, as mangaroo implies, timers and animation aren't friends. A workaround is to "pack" your animation with alpha zero blank images at the end of the animation sequence, to fill up the "waiting space". Then set the animation to loop.

LordTarantor

That's a good workaround but would it affect the game? Any way it will not work because the animation goes with a sound and I just noticed that the same issue happens with the sound. And the workaround will be a pain when trying to sinc the sound.

gyroscope

As long as the sound is "packed out" with silence to the same length of animation, and the animation length is perhaps a decent round number (and not too long), I think the game engine should time them together pretty much perfect; though haven't tested that.

Maybe they can be coordinated with a boolean, just thought. A timer set to every and a boolean (when true set to false, when false set to true), when the boolean is true, animation + sound plays. Should work quite nicely.

mangaroo

I usually just do like gyroscope and fills with blanks although 4 seconds may be a lot of blank images - im not sure why it isnt working for you but perhaps something like

rule = when animation1 is on
animate
timer after 2 seconds
disable animation1 and enable animation2

rule = when animation2 is On
animate
timer after 4 seconds
disable animation2 and enable animation1

? - ofcourse needs to start with animation1 enabled

LordTarantor

Hey guys, Thanks a lot.
Working with your ideas, this is what I came up:
I create a timer wich changes every 6 seconds a boolean att called reanimate to true.
I checked Run to Completion
In the actor I put a rule:
When att game.reanimate is true.
Animate
Play Sound
Timer: after 2 Run to completion
Change att game.reanimate to false.

It works amazing.
Thanks again guys.