Starting an animation after .SetAsPlayer (SOLVED)

[khnum]

So, i' making a gui to switch between different characters, and when you click on the image of the character you want to switch to, an animation starts; anyway, if the character is in the same room, there are no problems, but if the player is in another room, the room changes after the animation (and i want it to start after the room change). Since setAsPlayer waits for the entire function to finish before switching, what can i do?

[Scorpiorus]

You can work around it by setting a flag variable instead of starting an animation on clicking the image.
Then you can check for that flag in the repeatedly_execute() event function of the main global script and run animation from there:

At the top of the main global script:

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bool bRunAnimation = false;

on clicking the image:

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cSomeCharacter.SetAsPlayer();
bRunAnimation = true;

repeatedly_execute()

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if ( bRunAnimation == true )
{
    < start animation here >

    bRunAnimation = false; // to avoid starting it repeatedly
}

[khnum]

Thanks Scorpius, it worked 

[Scorpiorus]

You are welcome

Ah and one thing to add: if you were running different animations for different images, you can reproduce it with if-else within repeatedly_execute taking a current value of the player variable as condition to check for:

repeatedly_execute()

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if ( bRunAnimation == true )
{
    if      (player == cEgo1)  < start cEgo1-specific animation here >;
    else if (player == cEgo2)  < start cEgo2-specific animation here >;
    else if (player == cEgo3)  < start cEgo3-specific animation here >;

    bRunAnimation = false; // to avoid starting it repeatedly
}