Need help with an animated sprite

[CambroNZ]

Hi there, I'm totally new to Godot and have no coding or programing experience, just been following some youtube tutorials. I'm making a basic pixel art game.

I have an Animated Sprite with frames for a door opening and I just want this animated sprite to play only once upon game start. So I take it off looping and the sprite plays once in the editor, I then go to play the game and the animated sprite doesn't play (as it already played in the editor?)
Is there a way where the sprite will trigger or play upon game start?

[Matt [Linux]]

try using the function below in _ready() on your script for that node

func _ready():
	$AnimatedSprite.play()

[CambroNZ]

I named the animated sprite Garagedooropen and the name of the animation is Opening so in the code would I have to put:

func _ready():
$Garagedooropen.play()

or leave it as

func _ready():
$AnimatedSprite.play()

and do I put this code in the script for the scene which the animated sprite is in or do I made a script on the animated sprite and put the code in there. I may have tried some of these earlier but I got an error message when I tried to run the game

Edit* I put in the script for the scene node:

func _ready():
$Garagedooropen.play()

and also tried:
func _ready():
$Garagedooropen.play("Opening")
but it still wouldnt play when I ran the game so instead I put in

func _ready():
$AnimatedSprite.play()

but it came up with error message so I tried:

func _ready():
$AnimatedSprite.play("Opening")

and it came up with the same error message which says:

"Attempt to call function 'play' in base 'null instance' on a null instance

[Sersch]

Just to make sure you have not overlooked this small detail: you have to reset the animation in the editor to the first frame before you start your game, or the animation will play from the last frame and immediately stop.

[CambroNZ]

oh haha that did it XD thank you!