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xKetjow
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March 3, 2018
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Why does my player character grow in size when moving sideways ?

  • March 3, 2018
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Hey,

I'm creating a small game for an assignment. I've created it, and now i'm adding the graphical and animation parts to it. My main character is a bird, and I wanted to add some simple animation to it, and I managed to do it, however, when moving left/right, the character grows in size and I'm not sure why. I've made a video to showcase what's happening. Game animation and hitbox bug - YouTube

Does anyone know how I can fix this? The way I did it was by creating 2 symbols, one for idle, one for running, but the animation in both is the same, then given then names, and called them when certain actions are done in the game to change the animation state. The hitboxes also seem a bit broken with this character 😕😕

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Correct answer kglad

Ah I see, fair enough.

Do you know if there is any other ways of doing the animation? As the way I've done it now is gone inside the player symbol, and in there, created two separate symbols called "Player Animation Idle" and "Player Animation Running", and inside those symbols I did the animation itself, but it's the same in both since I just want flapping wings. Is this the usual way to do it or is there another way, which may perhaps solve it?


one way to do that would be to create a bird movieclip and create one or more keyframes in that (bird) movieclip.  one bird keyframe might be a resting bird.  that might even be a movieclip of a bird that periodically scratches his head.  one keyframe might contain a movieclip of a bird with flapping wings.

you would use bird.gotoAndStop() to control which keyframe (resting or flying) is displayed.

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kglad
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kgladCommunity Expert
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March 3, 2018

if you're using code to control your bird your scaleX property should be 1 or -1.

if you're using the time, check the transform panel with your bird selected on all the keyframes.

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    xKetjowAuthor
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    March 4, 2018

    I've checked my code, and this is what I have:

    if(leftPressed){ //If the left key is pressed
    xSpeed -= speedConstant; //xSpeed = xSpeed variable - speedConstant variable
    player.scaleX = -1; //Makes the player face the left side
    } else if(rightPressed){ //If the right key is pressed 
    xSpeed += speedConstant; //xSpeed = xSpeed variable + speedConstant variable
    player.scaleX = 1; //Makes the player face the right side
    }

    It seems correct to me, and I don't have any other code relating to player scaleX.

    I've also checked the transform tab, and I don't exactly know what i'm looking for. It's the same for both when the player stands still and moves, and when I actually play the animation from the place where I created it, it works fine, but it's just in the game where it becomes wider than it should be.

    kglad
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    kgladCommunity Expert
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    March 5, 2018

    I've managed to  fix it, I completely reset it to the character I had before, removed everything to do with it, removed the code for animation states I had, did the animation the way you said to do it in the previous post and it works!


    The only problem i'm seeing is that the hitboxes between the player and obstacles aren't exactly amazing, but it's playable and possible to finish all three levels.

    Thanks a lot


    you're welcome.

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