How to change sprite animations for AnimatedSprite in GD script?

Question

Hi.

So basically I have a 2D kinematic character as the "playable" character in my game, and I want a different animation for left/right/down/up and idle. I have made all the animations as children of the "frames" resource (as labeled in the animated sprite properties).

So my question is, how do I change or "set" the animation? I've used the play command, which does nothing, I've used the set animation command which also does nothing, no matter what I do the animation doesn't change, it just sticks with whichever animation was initially chosen as default in the properties - its as if it ignores the scripting.

 func get_input():
     if Input.is_action_pressed('right'):
       set_animation("frames/player_move_right")
     if Input.is_action_pressed('left'):
       set_animation("player_move_left")
     if Input.is_action_pressed('down'):
      set_animation("player_move_down")
     if Input.is_action_pressed('up'):
      set_animation("player_move_up")

I've done the same thing with phsyics(delta) to try and update the animation, and I've used the play("animation") command as well, neither of which work.

If there's a way to import a sprite sheet like every other engine that I don't know about, please tell me.

If there's another way to do this entirely, then that is fine as well.

Thanks for any and all feedback.

Comments

Hi,
I don't se in the docs that set_animation is a member function. I assume AnimatedSprite is child of KinematicBody2D. Can you try this:

$AnimatedSprite.animation =  "player_move_right"

instead of what you needed? Is the AnimatedSprite called frames in your project or i missunderstood? in that case you should try this:

$frames.animation = "player_move_right"

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Thank you so much! That cleared up a lot of stuff. I was looking for the member variable for the animation originally but couldn't find it (I was using AnimatedSprite.animation without $ originally and I kept getting flagged, so I tried another way). This fixed it! Thanks.

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Ok! Glad to help. I'll post it as an answer so the question doe not remain unanswered.. please you may select it so others can easily find solution.

Answer 1

Hi,
I don't se in the docs that set_animation is a member function. I assume AnimatedSprite is child of KinematicBody2D. Can you try this:

$AnimatedSprite.animation =  "player_move_right"

instead of what you needed? Is the AnimatedSprite called frames in your project or i missunderstood? in that case you should try this:

$frames.animation = "player_move_right"