Running character (Solved)

[G]

Hi there.

The game I am doing now requires the player character to walk and run.

I've used Rui and Strazer's Keyboard Movement Module to make my character able to walk, but now I can't make him run.

I try using this code at On_key_press function:

while (IsKeyPressed (403) == 1) {
    player.AnimationSpeed = (player.animspeed + 2);
   }

So when I press Shift and left or right, game crashes.

What am I doing wrong?

[Ashen]

What error message do you get?

Anyway, there're a couple of possible things:
Firstly, you seem to have mixed up two styles of coding, as you have both player.AnimationSpeed and player.animspeed - pick one and use it consistantly (if you're using V2.7+, player.AnimationSpeed). I don't think this will have caused the crash, but it's a better habit to be in.
Also, I don't think you'd use IsKeyPressed() in on_key_press like that, it'd probably be better in repeatedly_execute.
However, if you do that, the speed will keep increasing as long as the key is held, which could get a bit silly. Perhaps this would work better:

Code: ags

// top of Module script
bool running;

// in rep_ex
if (IsKeyPressed(403)) {
  if (running == false) {
    player.AnimationSpeed += 2;
    running == true;
  }
}
else if (running == true) { // 403 NOT pressed
  player.AnimationSpeed = 4; // Or whatever the normal 'Walk' speed is
  running = false;
}

You could also use player.AnimationSpeed, and set a maximum value, e.g.

Code: ags

if (IsKeyPressed(403)) {
  if (player.AnimationSpeed < 10) {
    player.AnimationSpeed += 2;
  }
}
else player.AnimationSpeed = 4; // 403 NOT pressed

Finally - you might want to change the characters Walking speed as well as / instead of their Animation speed.

[G]

Cool, now everything works. Thank you