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Then there are user-defined functions (like update_animations or play_animation). You have to call these yourself, but what they do is pre-defined and isn’t meant to be changed. Basically all of these will be prefaced by the name of the library that they are in, like: go.get_position() (from the Game Object library), msg.post() (from the Message library), or vmath.length() (from the Vector Math library).

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All the code in your game will branch out from these functions. They won’t actually do anything until you add code to them. These functions will be called by the engine at certain points during the life of the script instance and your game. on_reload - called when the script is hot reloaded.

on_input - called every time the script gets input (if it has acquired input focus).

on_message - called every time the script gets a message.

final - called when the script instance is destroyed.

init - called when the script instance is created.

When you create a new script, Defold automatically adds all the “lifecycle functions” to it: They won’t exist or ever be called unless you do it. Update_animations() and play_animation() are custom functions written by the user (you). Thank you for taking the time to read this I may be mixing up lua with other languages but is it possible to apply these codes to defold scripts and if so where would they be placed ( Or is it called play_animation(self, “walk right”) Have the sprite respond to the direction of movement

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So I did a little reading and found an idea of how the animations might work but not quite sure how to apply them to the code Thank you for the reply, however I still seem to be facing the same problem.