Libgdx: Pause between one cycle of animation - libgdx

Question

I have animation with 5 frames. I want to make pause for x seconds every time one animation cycle ends
1,2,3,4,5 (pause) 1,2,3,4,5 (pause) ...
Array<AtlasRegion> regions = atlas.findRegions("coin");
animGoldCoin = new Animation(1.0f / 20.0f, regions, PlayMode.LOOP);
I can't find way to do this.
Thanks

Answer 1

I don't really like the animation class, you can make your own.
float pauseTime=5f; // lets say that you want to pause your animation for x seconds after each cicle
float stateTime=0f; // this variable will keep the time, is our timer
float frameTime=1/20f; //amount of time from frame to frame
int frame=0; // your frame index
boolean waiting=false; // where this is true, you wait for that x seconds to pass
void Update()
{
stateTime+=Gdx.graphics.getDeltaTime();
if(!waiting && stateTime>frameTime) // that frame time passed
{
stateTime=0f; // reset our 'timer'
frame++; // increment the frame
}
if(waiting && stateTime>=0)
{
frame=0;
waiting=false;
}
if(frame>=NUMBER_OF_FRAMES)
{
frame--;
waiting=true;
stateTime=-pauseTime;
}
}
}
I think this will work, do you understand what I did?

Answer 2

I just had a similar problem but managed to come up with a solution. It works well for me but may not be the best way to go about it.. I'm still learning.
I created a new animation from the old animation's frames but with a speed of 0. It stops on the frame its at until the player speed changes.
if(speedX == 0f && speedY == 0f){
playerIdle = new Animation(0f,playerAnim.getKeyFrames());
playerAnim = playerIdle;
}
I know its an old question, but hopefully this will be useful to someone.

Answer 3

I made a quick solution in my search to pause a Libgdx animation.
I wanted an animation to pause when I pressed the spacebar.
I did try the above method of instantiating a new object and it did work. So I tried to just set the frame duration to 0, but that didn't work for some reason. This a less expensive method w/o instantiation.
If you want to pause an animation simply create three variables two are Boolean variables named toStop and hasLaunched another is a TextureRegion named launchFrame. Haslaunched is used to tell me when the spacebar is pressed.
if (InputHandler.hasLaunched && toStop ) {
launchFrame = launchBarAnimation.getKeyFrame(runTime);
toStop = false;
} else if (InputHandler.hasLaunched && !toStop){
batcher.draw(launchFrame, 90, 20, 50, 37);
} else {
batcher.draw(launchBarAnimation.getKeyFrame(runTime), 90, 20, 50, 37);
}