Changing player sprite with player direction

[TRP]

Greetings,

Looking for help with an issue I'm having. I'm using touch or global left mouse button to move the player around. I also want the player sprite to change when I go right and down. I'm using the below code in the step event.

//sprite change player movement

if obj_player.direction=180
{
draw_sprite(player_flip, 0, x, y)
}

if obj_player.direction=270
{
draw_sprite(player_flip, 0, x, y)

This doesn't work...wondering if I'm even on the right track...

Thanks for your time,

 

[Danei]

draw functions should go in the draw event.

Also remember to draw_self() or something equivalent; instances do that automatically when they have no draw event code, but if you add stuff in there you'll have to do it manually.

 

[DaMuffin]

Your code looks like it will check if the direction is exactly 180 or 270. I could be wrong, but if you're using the mouse to change direction then it'll be highly unlikely that you'll get those exact numbers. Try something like

if (obj_player.direction > 179) && (obj_player.direction < 271)
{
  draw_sprite(player_flip,0,x,y);
}

Hope that helps.

 

[Calvert]

I would use draw_sprite_ext as it avoids collision issues in the future.

STEP EVENT:

angle = point_direction(x,y,mouse_x,mouse_y);

DRAW EVENT:

draw_sprite_ext(spr_player, 0, x, y, 1, 1, angle, c_white, 1);