Gamemaker Help

This is going to be hard to explain but......how do you make an object stand still as one sprite when no buttons are pressed, then animate and move around when pressing the left,down, right, and up buttons. So far I set the left, right, up, and down buttons to "jump to a given position," then set the values so they respond to the correct direction. After, I set the <no key> event to change to the sprite that needs to be there when no key is pressed, so the object looks like its standing still. After doing this, the object moves around perfectly, but the original object sprite is the only sprite that is shown when up, down, left, right or no key is pressed. How do I make it so the original sprite plays only when no key is pressed and play a sprite that animates when up, down, left , or right is pressed. If this is hard to read, tell me and I'll try to better explain it.

I think this guy's trying to get different animations to work

Apparently only the stopped animation plays

Easy. In the Key events, just set a sprite change equivalent to the direction you're moving. For example, Up = spr_up, Down = spr_down and so forth.

I'll I need is for the sprite to stand still when no key is pressed and animate when he moves. For example, I need mario to look like hes standing still when no key is pressed and when he moves left or right I need him to animate so he looks like he's running.

I think I sorta understand.

What you could do is, in the create event, set image_single to 0. Then in the <left> and the <right> event, draw the sprites accordingly. So in left, you'd have the action to draw the sprite moving left, and same for right. When you release the key, set the image_single to 0.

And for jumping up, is vspeed > 0 you'd have the jump sprite up, and when vspeed < 0, you'd have the sprite falling down.

Hope that helps somehow.

Sorry for the dp but:

Alright, set these variables.

in create event:
left = false
right = false

in <left>:
left = true
right = false

<right>:
right = true
left = false

in <no key>

if right = true
{
sprite_index=yourspriteright
}
else
if left = true
{
sprite_index=yourspriteleft
}

Hope that helps.

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