Xcode Swift Pausing And Resuming Animation

Question

I am making a game using Xcode Swift SpriteKit where a character is running, and then when the character is told to jump, it moves up and stops animating, and resumes animating when it hits the ground. I have the following code but I am not sure what to do to rerun the animation.

Here is my code for starting the animation:

var BigLeftTexture1 = SKTexture(imageNamed: "Ninja Pro 1")
var BigLeftTexture2 = SKTexture(imageNamed: "Ninja Pro 2")
var BigLeftTexture3 = SKTexture(imageNamed: "Ninja Pro 3")
var BigLeftTexture4 = SKTexture(imageNamed: "Ninja Pro 4")
var BigLeftTexture5 = SKTexture(imageNamed: "Ninja Pro 5")
var BigLeftTexture6 = SKTexture(imageNamed: "Ninja Pro 6")
BigPerson = SKSpriteNode(imageNamed: "Ninja Pro 4")

var leftanimation1 = SKAction.animateWithTextures([BigLeftTexture1, BigLeftTexture2, BigLeftTexture3, BigLeftTexture4, BigLeftTexture5, BigLeftTexture6], timePerFrame: 0.065)
var LeftSideRunning = SKAction.repeatActionForever(leftanimation1)
BigPerson.runAction(LeftSideRunning, withKey: "BigStopLeftSide")

Here is my code for stopping the animation:

BigPerson.removeActionForKey("BigStopLeftSide")

I am trying to pause the animation and resume it when it is done moving, however it does not seem to work. — Skiddyflyer
– Skiddyflyer, Commented Mar 11, 2015 at 22:43

ndmeiri · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-27 19:30:18Z

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Try

// to stop the action
BigPerson.paused = true

// to move on
BigPerson.paused = false

edited Apr 27, 2016 at 19:30

ndmeiri

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answered Apr 27, 2016 at 19:14

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2 Comments

Whirlwind Over a year ago

If the goal is to pause a certain action, then you don't need to pause the whole node. You can just pause that action.

aignetti Over a year ago

Hi Whirlwind, how would you do that? With .Speed = 0?

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