Platformer sword attack?

I NEED HELP!

I'm in the middle of creating a platformer, and in one section of the game the character picks up a sword. The problem is, I don't know how to get him to use it. I want to press "Spacebar" and he slashes with his sword. I am also going to animate three different attacks with the sword (For example jab, slice, and slash).

I want to press spacebar once and the character does "Attack 1." Press it again and he does "Attack 2" and etc. So what is the coding for all of this?

If somebody could resolve this I would be more than thankful.

Well, it really depends how you're doing it. If your player is a movieclip and your attack animations are all on one timeline, you can do something like have a variable called attackFrame and set it to the first frame of "Attack 1". Then, have some actionscript in the "Attack 1" sequence set it to the first frame of "Attack 2", and so on. Then when the spacebar is pressed, just use gotoAndPlay(attackFrame).

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Originally Posted by redjag

Well, it really depends how you're doing it. If your player is a movieclip and your attack animations are all on one timeline, you can do something like have a variable called attackFrame and set it to the first frame of "Attack 1". Then, have some actionscript in the "Attack 1" sequence set it to the first frame of "Attack 2", and so on. Then when the spacebar is pressed, just use gotoAndPlay(attackFrame).

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Alright so if I did it that way, what would the coding look like for "Attack 1?"
(I understand what you're saying but I'm not good at variables.) Only Attack 1 though because it would just be the same coding for the rest except for swapping names and keyframe numbers. Thanks a bunch. :)