Death animation not working

LikeADragonFish

New to Godot and I just can't figure out why my death animation will not play properly. I can "die" and reset just fine but adding in my death animation it pauses on the first frame and nothing happens.

kuligs2

LikeADragonFish try to set up the code to use signals without awaits. this way you will think in the logic how codes executes.

Clearly something is not executing in the order you think it should.

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/step_by_step/signals.html#connecting-a-signal-via-code as an example how to set it up in code

DaveTheCoder

Try commenting out the queue_free().

DaveTheCoder

Adding on to kuligs2's post, remove the existing await and queue_free() and do something like this:

func _ready() -> void:
    $AnimationPlayer.animation_finished.connect(_on_animation_finished)

func _on_animation_finished(anim_name: StringName) -> void:
    if anim_name == 'Death':
        queue_free()

Another issue is that if the code you posted is in _process() or _physics_process(), then anim.play("Death") could be getting called repeatedly, causing the animation to keep restarting without ever finishing.

LikeADragonFish

Appreciate everyone's help. I ended up learning more about signals and doing things that way and it seemed to do the trick, thanks.