hello people

For reasons of neatness and clarity I'm trying to set the animdist and frame group of my player entity (mei_mo) from a rather lengthy function called by a key press (instead of the player entity's action). In some desperation I tried

you = ptr_for_name("mei_mo");
ent_frame("Drift",you._animdist);
you._animdist = wind * (100 / spar4[0]);

I thought it wouldn't work though, and obligingly it didn't. I really don't have any idea how to solve this sort of problem. please help

im using the older A5 standard

what error message is shown when you compile the game?

When I was learning MP programming I did something similar. Because in MP when an ent is created its action is running on server , you cant use the action on the clients. What I did :
Created a loop in main()
In this loop every 1 second it checks if an entity is still unanimated (created between the two checks). This is done by going thru all entities with ent_next and checking their 'am_i_animated' skill.
If it is , set its skill 'am_i_animated' to 1 and start a function
animate_me(entity)

Its very simple this way

animate_me? ookay i don't really get it, and I'm not even sure that it applies to A5 standard, but it gave me another idea and now mei_mo is working perfectly, so thanks.