How do I code a hero to face certain direction on keypress..

By default if my hero in the game is facing right and I click the left arrow she will move one tile left.

Is there a way I can override this so that when I am facing right and click left the hero will first face left, then commence with walk?

An example of this is in Pokemon Red/Blue when you tap a direction you're not facing then the hero will face that direction rather than taking a step.

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I'm not sure if it is useful outside of player suspended cut scenes, but there appears to be a Set Hero Direction command.

Maybe you could link a Set hero Direction(me, left) command to a keypress on Key:left followed by a 1 or 2 tick wait command?

Perhaps you could do something with an if-then, or while-do script. So that if the Hero Direction (me, left) is true, it disregards the wait, and continues normal player control. I don't know if this way would require suspending the player or not.

Keep in mind, I'm just taking shots in the dark here, I haven't done anything like this, nor do I know if this would work, or if there are more simple ways to achieve it. I just like trying to figure thing out.

Here's an artivle from moogle1's plotscripting tutorials that is just what you need.

http://moogle1.castleparadox.com/keyispressed.php

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Thanks, I didn't know about that resource. It looks like there's a lot of useful stuff there.

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