Way to get an enemy to walk in steps?

[Weoooo]

I'd like an enemy to walk in a way where it's not continuous. They step, stop for a bit, and step again. Since I want this to be an animation effect, it can't just stop and restart.

I originally thought "oh, I'll just put a move 0 in there." That does not work during a walk animation. They just keep going. That's kinda all I've got, and looking through what I can find, I don't see anything either.

 

[Bloodbane]

I think this is best done with script to an enemy with no WALK animation. Too bad I can't try anything until my PC is fixed.

 

[DatKofGuy]

have you tried making a it so that there is frame where they are standing still, and that has a certain amount of time added to it?

example

anim walk
    loop    1
    delay    10
    offset    75 140
    bbox    70 40 30 100
    frame    data/chars/TerryBogard/walk1.png
    frame    data/chars/TerryBogard/walk2.png
    frame    data/chars/TerryBogard/walk3.png
    frame    data/chars/TerryBogard/walk4.png
    frame    data/chars/TerryBogard/walk5.png
    frame    data/chars/TerryBogard/walk6.png
    frame    data/chars/TerryBogard/walk7.png
    frame    data/chars/TerryBogard/walk8.png
    delay    100
    frame    data/chars/TerryBogard/idle1.png

Theoretically speaking, it will do the full walk cycle, then pause on the idle for a bit, then look back to the walk cycle.

 

[Weoooo]

They just skate around if you do that. Walk moves characters at a constant speed, even if the animation doesn't look like they should.

I think this is best done with script to an enemy with no WALK animation. Too bad I can't try anything until my PC is fixed.

Yeah when I realized that I couldn't stop a character while they were walking by move 0, I went "...oh no, I'm completely out of ideas and this means its gonna be more complicated"

 

[DCurrent]

Yeah guys, those sorts of tricks won't work. Velocity and animation are two entirely separate things - and they're meant to be. You're going to have to take control of the actions, and that's going to mean a script that sets walking state on conditionals.

DC

 

[Weoooo]

Oh yeah, this is a total edge use scenario. You want walk to... walk your guys. How they move and where is different than moving itself. I'm looking at this from the perspective of "can I make this happen even though it's clearly not supposed to work this way," which is very much the mindset of a modder rather than a designer.

... although... if I made those frames move the character backwards, would that offset the constant forward motion...

Nope. It MIGHT work on a straight up side scroller with seperate forward and back walks, but there's no guarantee that a character is going to be moving only in one direction, and since movement occurs per frame, it's not nearly as smooth as normal velocity.

 

[hbdhl]

I’ll use this solution: Create several "attack(number)" with different movement distances.
For example, attack1 is stepping in place for 1 second, attack2 is a slow step forward, and attack3 is a slow step forward followed by an attack.