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For a small background animation you can use an object instead. Look up Object.Animate in the manual.

If you still want to do it using background frames:

Code: ags

// inside room_RepExec()

  if (IsTimerExpired(1)) {
    nbf = (GetBackgroundFrame() + 1) % 4;
    SetTimer(1, 400*(nbf==0) + 5*(nbf>0));
    SetBackgroundFrame(nbf);
  }

Final step: if it doesn't exist, add the after fadein event and in there, call SetTimer(1, 1); to start things off.

Thanks for your help i got it to work using a timer with my original code

Code: ags

function room_RepExec()
{  
  if (IsTimerExpired(1)) {
    SetBackgroundFrame(1);
    Wait (5);
    SetBackgroundFrame(2);
    Wait (5);
    SetBackgroundFrame(3);
    Wait(5);
    SetBackgroundFrame(0);
    SetTimer(1, 200);
  }
}

function room_AfterFadeIn()
{
  SetBackgroundFrame(0);
  SetTimer(1, 200);
}

Ok so i'm using SetBackgroundFrame to animate a background as i want to add a waiting period after the animation, the animation is a fish jumping in a pond but i don't want the fish to repeatedly jump in the animation.

This is the code i was trying but it stops the character from moving etc as its using Wait();

SetBackgroundFrame(0);
Wait(400);
SetBackgroundFrame(1);
Wait(5);
SetBackgroundFrame(2);
Wait(5);
SetBackgroundFrame(3);
Wait(5);

this code is being looped.