[RM2K3] RUNNING ANIMATIONS STUCK

What does your event look like? Parallel process with a conditional branch to check whether or not the key is being pressed comes to mind when I think of how I would approach it.

That kinda looks like a mess tbh, at a glance the running key detection seems fine, but what are you using to check for movement? I would just have a separate keyinput process that checks all 4 keys and reset it to walk/stand if they're not being pressed. Then separately check for the shift key. You're kind of in a spaghetti bowl of conditional branches atm, there might be something out of the way that's interfering.

Since you're using cherry's RM2K3 you can actually copy paste everything into text that you could post in a code snippet here

Here's what I did:


image since the colors make it easier to see.

I place the key inputs to turn on/off switches, then check to see if they're both on/off at the same time: turn it into the running sprite. If you're not pressing the run key but still moving, turn into the walking sprite, if you're not pressing either, turn into the walking sprite.

Edit: this won't solve the wall problem, that might require additional fixing. But standing still seems to be the main thing to worry about.

Edit2: fuck it, decided to solve it anyway. Here's the event I came up with (warning a bit spaghetti branched): image here

in this example the dog appears if I'm pressing any of the 4 movement keys, the cat appears if moving is being detected (the important one) and the chicken is the sprint key. I turn into Alex when I'm sprinting, Zack when walking to illustrate what's going on.


So the basic thing is to set 2 main variables to the player's x and y coordinates, run some event to check if 2 "duplicate" variables aren't equal to it, then set the duplicate variables to the main xy variables after.

This way you can check in-between movement. Problem is RM2K3 is a little too good about checking x and y values of the player, it will "flicker" because it's checking almost every frame moving between tiles will count as the x and y values not changing (when you move you are instantly on the next tile). I decided to simply add delay, where if you're moving it will count up a delay variable to turn off the movement switch, it just sets a timer to run out if you're no longer actually moving rather than detecting being completely still. Hope that isn't too convoluted.

Oh, when the player is constantly in a Move Route it's probably disallowing certain things (even a change sprite). You can probably just use the 'Change Actor Graphic' command (1st page 2nd column) instead of the move event. But if you need a move event to change speeds you'll have to trigger/toggle it once at a time and not constantly. Usually something like:

If switch A is off
>Do move event stuff
>Then turn switch A on

Switch A would then have to be turned off elsewhere but if you need an example specific to this problem let me know.