Controlling and testing player direction

[Ellie]

I know how to change the basic direction of the player, but how do I change the frame that is being used?

I.e. player frame = 2nd row 3rd column.

Also, how do I test for this (though I guess that would be pretty self explanatory)?

 

[Sarkilas]

I believe, once the direction is set, find the player (which would be $game_player, but this can also be used for events), and use the following code:

$game_player.pattern = 1

As I see, you can change the pattern from 1-4 or something like that. By the look of this snippet in Game_Character 2:

@pattern = (@pattern + 1) % 4

It should be based on the 4x4 character set layout. Not sure if this works, but it's the only possible solution I could find.

To check if it is in a certain pattern, just use the same code without the operation of course. Pretty obvious.

Hope this works out for ya.

 

[Ellie]

Cheers dude, works fine