Why AnimationPlayer doesn't play when player got hurt?

sachet

@onready var health : AnimatedSprite2D = $"Health Bar"
@onready var hurt : AnimationPlayer = $Injured

func player_animation():
	var h = clamp(health_amount, 0, 6)
	if h == 6:
		health.play("Full Health")
	else:
		hurt.play("Minus %d" % (6 - h))

func _on_injured_animation_finished(anim_name: StringName):
	health.play("Health Minus %d" % (6 - clamp(health_amount, 0, 5)))

Only AnimatedSprite2D changes. Can you help, please?

DaveTheCoder

Add print statements. For example:

else:
        hurt.play("Minus %d" % (6 - h))

else:
        var animation_name := "Minus %d" % (6 - h)
        print_debug("Playing animation '%s' on player '%s'" % [animation_name, hurt])
        hurt.play(animation_name)

sachet

DaveTheCoder Print command worked perfectly, and multiple times, but animation from AnimationPlayer didn't show. Can AnimationPlayer be covered by AnimatedSprite2D? Describing the whole situation, I took frames from co-exising animations from AnimatedSprite2D, and it plays on editing mode. Animations in AnimationPlayer must be triggered when player gets hurt and when finished, move back to looped animation from AnimatedSprite2D. Any ideas? By the time, I'll try moving all animations of health bar to AnimationPlayer and code it to see, will it work. If it worked, I'll write it down.

DaveTheCoder

One possible problem is that you're trying to play the animation too frequently, and you keep restarting it before it can play. Try checking that hurt.is_playing() is false or that hurt.current_animation is empty before calling hurt.play().