Action Script 3. How to play animation once?

Question

I'm creating flash game and I have animations for character movements. How correctly setup animations to play It only 1 time after action? For example: If I click "Space" button - character jumping and "Jumping" animation starts playing forever, if character stay on the ground jumping animation continue playing. How to stop It when character stay on the ground? Or if I use attack animation It loop forever too. In normal state character should use Hero.gotoAndStop("staying");

Here is my jumping code:

    if (Hero.y_speed > 0 && Hero.hitTestObject(ground))
    {
        Hero.y_speed = 0;
        Hero.x_speed = 0;
        if (space)
        {
            if (true)
            {
                Hero.gotoAndStop("jumping");//here starts jumping animation loop non stop
                stop(); //this not working
                Hero.y_speed = -20;
            }
            else
            {

            }
        }
    }

What is on the frame labeled "jumping" ? Is there a MovieClip of a jumping animation ? — prototypical, Sep 19 '13 at 22:54
and a `stop()` on the last frame of your animation. Your current `stop()` after `Hero.gotoAndStop("jumping");` is referring to whatever `this` would be. — Ronnie, Sep 19 '13 at 23:03

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 19 '13 at 23:06

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You need to put a stop(); on the last frame of the MovieClip, so that the MovieClip stops playing once the playhead reaches there.

answered Sep 19 '13 at 23:06

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Thank you for answer, Is It possible to make that after jumping animation continue "staying" animation? For now It just stops on the last frame on the jumping animation. – Sep 19 '13 at 23:14
Thank you for this. This answer helped me with a huge headache. – Michael Arnold Jan 20 '16 at 15:22

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:07

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Given that there is an MovieClip on the frame, you need to tell that MovieClip containing the jump animation to stop.

You would need to have a stop on the last frame of that animation. You'd put that stop on that animation's timeline.

edited to answer comment :

You could probably use a line like this to switch to the "staying" animation when complete.

parent.gotoAndStop("staying");

In this case you wouldn't need to have a stop as the playhead would be moving off of that animation in going to the staying animation.

I think this particular post : flash event listener for movieclip end?

gives a particularly good example of extending a MovieClip giving it a much welcomed ANIMATION_COMPLETE event. So if you are looking to handle things via code exclusively, that would be a good direction to choose.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:07

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answered Sep 19 '13 at 23:02

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Thank you for answer, Is It possible to make that after jumping animation continue "staying" animation? For now It just stops on the last frame on the jumping animation. – Sep 19 '13 at 23:15
Thank you, this worked for me. But now I have problem, I have 3 different attack animations and when I use 1, if for example I try to use second attack first animation cancels and start playing second. I need to make that while playing animation impossible to cancel till It end.Possible to make It? – Sep 20 '13 at 10:05
You need to ask another question, this one has been answered. Doing development step by step in the comments is not useful to the community. – prototypical Sep 20 '13 at 16:54

Action Script 3. How to play animation once?

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