# Help with movement animation
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-movement-animation/64787
**Category:** programming
**Created:** [September 20, 2004, 1:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-movement-animation/64787 "2004-09-20T01:40:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@acor](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/acor)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2004, 1:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-movement-animation/64787/1 "2004-09-20T01:40:04Z")
Please help me make it so when my character moves is plays the whole movement animation and not just one frame. Heres the code:
```auto
onClipEvent (load) {
moveSpeed = 4;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (Key.isDown (Key.RIGHT)) {
this._x += moveSpeed; _xscale = -100;
this.gotoAndPlay(1);
}
if (Key.isDown (Key.LEFT)) {
this._x -= moveSpeed; _xscale = 100;
this.gotoAndPlay(1)
}
```
the movemnt animation is 10 frames long but it only plays the first frame in the movie clip and then stops.
I want it to be something like this [http://baiwanfuong.notix.net/tienzsiyusi.htm](http://baiwanfuong.notix.net/tienzsiyusi.htm)
Please help me Chen!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2004, 6:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-movement-animation/64787/2 "2004-09-20T06:57:16Z")
hm i think that should work, you haven’t got a stop(); in any keyframes inside the movie clip have you? if u haven’t try:
onClipEvent (load) {
moveSpeed = 4;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (Key.isDown (Key.RIGHT)) {
this.\_x += moveSpeed;
\_xscale = -100;
walking1 = true;
}else{
walking1 = false;
}
if (Key.isDown (Key.LEFT)) {
this.\_x -= moveSpeed;
\_xscale = 100;
walking2 = true;
}else{
walking2 = false;
}
if(walking1 || walking2){
this.gotoAndPlay(2);
}else{
this.gotoAndStop(1);
}
}
\ you’ve probably put stop(); in the first keyframe of the walking movie clip haven’t u, that should be ok to delete if you use the above code. but if u want to keep it in the last keyframe of the movie clip you’ll need gotoAndPlay(2); else it’ll go to the first one and stop again.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2004, 7:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-movement-animation/64787/3 "2004-09-20T07:07:19Z")
This is just what I’ve been working with the last two weeks.
I’ll give you an example of how mine works.
I’ve got a movie clip of the character, where frame 1 is facing north, 2 contains a movie clip where he walks north, 3 is facing south, 4 is another movie clip where he walks south and so on.
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)) {
setProperty (this, \_x, this.\_x-5);
if (\_currentframe != 6) {
gotoAndStop(6);
}
}
This isn’t really how my code looks now, since I can only find an early version of my project here. But it works anyways.
If you’re not in frame 6, which is the _walk left_ frame, it will go there. Since there is a movie clip inside the frame, gotoAndStop will work fine.