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Hi.
I am running an animation through an action (using CCRepeatForever). I need to stop the animation at a specific frame to continue the animation with another animation/action.
Lets suppose my animation has 16 frames. I want to stop the animation at the frame 8.
Is it possible?
I am out of ideas here, I just need a hint.
Thank you very much.
RRdaS
you need to use a CCCallFunc
[CCCallFunc actionWithTarget:self selector:@selector(switchFunc)];This will run a function called switchFunc when it is called.
in my game, i have an idleAnimation, and a jump animation.
jumpStartSeq = [[CCSequence actions:jumpAnim, floorSet, playIdle, nil] retain];my playIdle action repeats itself forever.
When a user taps the screen, i have a function that stops all actions on my sprite and runs jumpStartSeq. It also changes the sprites state to 'isJumping = TRUE'
my jumpAnim which is a CCAnimation is played, then floorSet is used to reset my players isJumping state back to FALSE and then the playIdle anim is started again.
Just make your animation 8 frames long not 16. have a callFunc in the middle. then have a second animation with your remaining 8 frames.
Bongeh,
Thank you for your answer. What you did in your game does not seems to apply to me.
Let me explain: my CCAnimation is spinning a missile forever. When the time of the player is over, I need to launch the missile, but the missile can only be launched to a certain direction. This direction is reached when the animation is in the frame 8. I cannot simply stop all action because the missile will be pointed to a wrong direction.
If I could stop the animation in the frame 8, then I will start another action or animation. I cannot reduce the number of frames because I have to complete 360 degrees.
I hope I have understand your answer correctly.
Any other hint?
Thank you so much.
RRdaS
Tim
Member
@RRdas, I think @Bongeh's suggested solution could still work in that you build a repeating sequence where you have your animation action of 8 frames, check to see if the player's time is out via the CCCallFunc, and then continue with your animation. But if the called function determines time is out then you stop that sprite's action so that you could then initiate the next sequence with your other animations for that sprite (e.g launch missile). This seems inefficient but should work IMO.
Tim and Bongeh,
A quick test of your suggestions showed me that it works!
Thank you very much.
For future reference and to help others, here is what I tested:
// To construct the action:
CCAnimation *animBase100 = [CCAnimation animationWithName:@"animBase100" delay:0.08f frames:animBase100Frames];
actionBase100 = [CCRepeatForever actionWithAction:[CCSequence actions:[CCAnimate actionWithAnimation:animBase100 restoreOriginalFrame:NO],[CCCallFuncN actionWithTarget:self selector:@selector(switchFunc:)], nil]];
[base100b runAction:actionBase100];And:
// To stop the action:
- (void) switchFunc:(id)sender {
NSLog(@"switchFunc is called from:%@", sender);
// Test if the time is out. If the time is out, execute:
[sender stopAction:actionBase100];
}Thank you once more.
RRdaS
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