How can I set the animation for Sonic to turn around after the skid and ONLY if the player is pressing left or right?

[KauanGamer2130]

I was looking at the animations of sonic mania sprites, and I noticed that there is an animation that is played after the skid animation and if the player just presses left and right, this will make Sonic turn to the other side playing this animation, however if the skid animation is running but if the player is not holding left or right (input.down.left and input.down.right) only the walking animation is executed, skipping the animation of the character turning to the other side after the skid! How can I make this animation play ONLY if the player holds the button left or right?

here is the sprite of the animation I'm trying to run:

[MarceloDPG]

i have something similar implemented, what I did is have the turn around frames be part of the skid. Once the animation comes to a end, it looks as if sonic has turned (not sure if it will give you your desired look, but it helps).

[KauanGamer2130]

Well, I managed to get the code to work, but, the animation is displayed FIRST than the skid animation instead of being played after it!

Sonic.The.Hedgehog_.Reinvented.2025-02-09.16-09-22.online-video-cutter.com.2.mp4

[TrianglyRU]

You should do this before the player's movement script sets the ANI_SKID. Code order matters.
If you set the animation to ANI_SKID and then to ANI_SKID_TURN, ANI_SKID will be completely skipped. This is a thing in programming I recommend to understand asap

[KauanGamer2130]

Are you talking about player_movement_ground right? well, when I put the animation before the command to make ani_skid work, ani_skid2 doesn't work!
here is the current state of the code:

(sorry for the inconvenience)

[TrianglyRU]

That's because ANI_SKID2 is overwritten by ANI_SKID. Pay attention to what your code does. Add && animation != ANI_SKID2 to the if statement