GML General GMS-Noobie question about hit animations [SOLVED]

[sheixi]

Hello!
I've been trying to get into gamemaker studio by making a simple character that will point towards my mouse and hit on click.

everything worked out fine except that i seem to have chosen an inefficient way of doing that:

i created 2 objects:
1. char
2. hit

i programmed it so that when i click, my character would spawn the object hit on his position which then would follow my char and turn in an arch around him (was supposed to be a sword).

so my problem is, while moving the sword would slightly lagg behind, which led me to believe that this is not the way to do it.

so my question is:
how would this "usually" be done? do i just add frames with the sword to my char and use them when i hit or do i replace the sprite and if so, is there a way to differenciate between collision in different areas of the collision box

I hope this post is in the right forum. this is my first post.

thank you in advace

 

[Simon Gust]

lagging behind sounds like you update the sword x and y before the player x and y in terms of code order.

 

[sheixi]

i feel so stupid, that did the the trick thanks alot!

 

[StormGamez]

a better way to do it would be to make a attack animation for the player that has the sword and then switch to that animation when you click and back to idle or running sprite/animation when the attack animation finishes, then you just create a object in front of the player that is invisible that damages the enemy then disappears afterwards... i hope this helps!

 

[sheixi]

it absolutely does thanks

 

[StormGamez]

no problem!