Calling an animation after the completion of a non-blocking animation cycle.

[KodiakBehr]

I've got a non-blocking character animation repeating constantly through a scene.  (A whale is swimming.)

I want to trigger the start of another non-blocking animation at a specific point in time, but I want it to be only at the end of a cycle of repeating non-blocking animation so the character doesn't suddenly jump mid-way through the animation cycle.  (The whale needs to attack at a specific point in time, but only after we've reached the end of the swim loop.)

Is there a clever way to go about this?

[Slasher]

Quicky:

Check: what about if swim frame==[n] next animation (whale) start?

[Gilbert]

There are a lot of ways to do this.
One way I can think of is like this(not tested):

Code: ags

//Outside of functions in the room's script.
enum WhaleState {
  WS_IDLE = 0;
  WS_WILLATTACK,
  WS_ATTACKING
};

WhaleState cur_ws = WS_IDLE;

Code: ags

//Put the following in wherever the attack command is to be registered.
if (!cur_ws&&(whatever condition to trigger the attack)) cur_ws = WS_WILLATTACK;

Code: ags

//Put the following in repeadedly_execute_always() of the room.
if (cur_ws == WS_WILLATTACK&&cWhale.Frame == 5){  //Replace the 5 to the correct last frame number of the loop.
  cur_ws = WS_ATTACKING;
  cWhale.LockView(whale_attack_view);
  cWhale.Animate(0, 0, eOnce, eNoBlock, eForwards);
} else if (cur_ws == WS_ATTACKING&&!cWhale.Animating){
  cur_ws = WS_IDLE;
  cWhale.LockView(whale_swim_view);
  cWhale.Animate(0, 0, eRepeat, eNoBlock, eForwards);
}

[KodiakBehr]

These worked wonderfully.  Thank you both!