Animations... [resolved]

[Fusty]

I'm using Gamemaker for the first time to make a small school project and I'm having some trouble.
I've made a sprite of a hand wielding a gun which I want to do a shooting animation once and then return to the normal non-shooting sprite.
First the animation kept looping so that was wrong, but now the animation doesn't run at all.
So in short, how do I make an animation run only once?

If I need to post some screenshots please tell me and I will put them up once I'm home (using a school computer atm)

Okay now I've got a new question, which is hopefully very easy to solve as well.

I'm trying to make something happen after the score reaches a certain value, so I used the "Test Score" command, but for some reason it's not working.
This is how I set it up:

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It's probably something very simple but I'm a noob when it comes to this program.. :sad:

 

[bacon]

have you tried changing the sprite. Have to sprites, a normal pose and a shooting pose. Then set up a event in the player event where if you press [blank] then character sprite changes, and change it to shooting pose. Then set a timer depending on how long your animation is. Once the timer goes off, revert the sprite back to the original pose.

 

[Fusty]

Got it to work, never thought of using a simple timer for this, was experimenting with all sorts of variables :P.
Thanks for the help.

 

[Fusty]

Edited my first post with a new question.

 

[bacon]

I dont know if you have figured this out or not by now but try changing the create command to a step command and see if that works. c:

 

[Fusty]

omg, I can't believe it was that simple...
I hate being a noob :p
Thanks for your help again.

 

[bacon]

its no problem, that's a common mistake that I made for a long time. c: