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Golelorn
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Let's say you want to do an elaborate animation, but you don't want anything else processing while the animation is going on - thinking when you kill a creature the animation is a bit more elaborate.

I can only think of adding a global "switch" and an if statement in the main loop. Do you guys think there is a better way?
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Ortu
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I set up an animation handler, in which I manually calculate and set the active frame which also let's me control follow up animations and callback functions to execute when the animation ends
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Richard_6
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GetTweenSpritePlaying / GetTweenObjectPlaying maybe?
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Posted: 25th Jul 2018 08:43 Edited at: 25th Jul 2018 08:43
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A little extreme but you could lock it in a while loop;

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Golelorn
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Exactly what I wanted Supertino. I always forget the power of repeat and while. I wanted something like the kill scenes in Mortal Kombat, God of War, etc. where everything stops until the animation completes.
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