Diagonal Animation not playing

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:bust_in_silhouette: Asked By Cuda

I have a set up animation player and a script set up so that when I click a certain arrow keys it runs the animation in that direction. The problem is that when I press two arrow keys and it goes diagonally the animation stops and doesn’t play anything. How can I solve this?
code:

func get_input():
velocity = Vector2()
if Input.is_action_pressed("ui_right"):
	$AnimationPlayer.play("runright")
	velocity.x += 1
elif Input.is_action_just_released("ui_right"):
	$AnimationPlayer.play("idleright")

if Input.is_action_pressed("ui_left"):
	$AnimationPlayer.play("runleft")
	velocity.x -= 1


elif Input.is_action_just_released("ui_left"):
	$AnimationPlayer.play("idleleft")

if Input.is_action_pressed("ui_down"):
	$AnimationPlayer.play("rundown")
	velocity.y += 1
elif Input.is_action_just_released("ui_down"):
	$AnimationPlayer.play("idledown")

if Input.is_action_pressed("ui_up"):
	$AnimationPlayer.play("runup")
	velocity.y -= 1
elif Input.is_action_just_released("ui_up"):
	$AnimationPlayer.play("idleup")




velocity = velocity.normalized() * speed

func _physics_process(delta):
get_input()
velocity = move_and_slide(velocity)
:bust_in_silhouette: Reply From: magicalogic

The animation player doesn’t know which of the two animations to play.
Check whether two keys are pressed at the same time too and play one of the animations (diagonally upwards can use the runup animatioan maybe).