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Top-down movement animator

Change the animation according to the movement direction.

Authors and contributors to this experimental extension: D8H.

Change the animation according to the movement direction.

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Top-down movement animator

Change the animation according to the movement direction.

Behavior properties

  • Angle offset (🔢 Number, Angle). Set to 90°, "Walk0" becomes the animation for down. Default value is 0.
  • Animation name (🔤 String). Animations must be called "Walk0", "Walk1"... for left, down... Default value is Walk.
  • Number of directions (🔢 Number, Dimensionless). Leave to 0 to automatically use 8 when diagonals are allowed and 4 otherwise. Default value is 0.
  • Pause animations when objects stop (🔘 Boolean). Default value is true.
  • Scale animations according to speed (🔘 Boolean). Default value is true.
See internal technical details

  • Angle offset is stored as AngleOffset (Number). Unit is DegreeAngle. Default value is 0.

    This behavior must be used on an object also having a behavior with type "AnimatableCapability::AnimatableBehavior". This is stored on property Animation.

  • Animation name is stored as AnimationName (String). Default value is Walk.

  • Number of directions is stored as DirectionCount (Number). Unit is Dimensionless. Default value is 0.
  • Pause animations when objects stop is stored as IsPausingAnimation (Boolean). Default value is true.
  • Scale animations according to speed is stored as IsScalingAnimation (Boolean). Default value is true.

    This behavior must be used on an object also having a behavior with type "TopDownMovementBehavior::TopDownMovementBehavior". This is stored on property TopDownMovement.

Behavior actions

Animation name
Change the animation name of the object.

See parameters & details
  • Parameter 0: 👾 Object
  • Parameter 1: 🧩 Behavior
  • Parameter 2: 🟰 Operator
  • Parameter 3 (🔤 String): Value

Technical note: parameter 4 is an internal parameter handled by GDevelop.

Technical note: this action internal type (in GDevelop JSON) is TopDownMovementAnimator::TopDownMovementAnimator::SetAnimationName.

Pause animations when objects stop
Change whether animations are paused when objects stop.

See parameters & details
  • Parameter 0: 👾 Object
  • Parameter 1: 🧩 Behavior
  • Parameter 2 (❓ Yes or No): IsPausingAnimation

Technical note: parameter 3 is an internal parameter handled by GDevelop.

Technical note: this action internal type (in GDevelop JSON) is TopDownMovementAnimator::TopDownMovementAnimator::SetIsPausingAnimation.

Scale animations according to speed
Change whether animations are scaled according to speed or not.

See parameters & details
  • Parameter 0: 👾 Object
  • Parameter 1: 🧩 Behavior
  • Parameter 2 (❓ Yes or No): IsScalingAnimation

Technical note: parameter 3 is an internal parameter handled by GDevelop.

Technical note: this action internal type (in GDevelop JSON) is TopDownMovementAnimator::TopDownMovementAnimator::SetIsScalingAnimation.

Behavior conditions

Animation name
Compare the animation name of the object.

See parameters & details
  • Parameter 0: 👾 Object
  • Parameter 1: 🧩 Behavior
  • Parameter 2: 🟰 Relational operator
  • Parameter 3 (🔤 String): Value to compare

Technical note: parameter 4 is an internal parameter handled by GDevelop.

Technical note: this condition internal type (in GDevelop JSON) is TopDownMovementAnimator::TopDownMovementAnimator::AnimationName.

Pause animations when objects stop
Check if animations are paused when objects stop.

See parameters & details
  • Parameter 0: 👾 Object
  • Parameter 1: 🧩 Behavior

Technical note: parameter 2 is an internal parameter handled by GDevelop.

Technical note: this condition internal type (in GDevelop JSON) is TopDownMovementAnimator::TopDownMovementAnimator::IsPausingAnimation.

Scale animations according to speed
Check if animations are scaled according to speed.

See parameters & details
  • Parameter 0: 👾 Object
  • Parameter 1: 🧩 Behavior

Technical note: parameter 2 is an internal parameter handled by GDevelop.

Technical note: this condition internal type (in GDevelop JSON) is TopDownMovementAnimator::TopDownMovementAnimator::IsScalingAnimation.

Behavior expressions

Expression Description
Object.TopDownMovementAnimator::AnimationName() Return the animation name of the object.

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