Weapon Alpha

[Mat(Nerah)]

You could try something like this to advance your event check ig: player's vspeed=0 so he is idle
(Then you might be able to condense your armor switch code as well as the normal sprites, based on movement variables)

If you give me your variables I could edit this code more for you.
though this may be plug and play; fair warning please back up before trying this. Though the code has no syntax errors.

Code:

//Idle
if armor=1 && vspeed=0
   then sprite_index=spr_valo_idle{sprite_index=spr_toroarmor_idle}
if armor=1 && hspeed=0
   then sprite_index=spr_valo_idle{sprite_index=spr_toroarmor_idle}
   
//Jumping (Rising/Falling)
if armor=1 && vspeed<1 or vspeed>-1
   then sprite_index=spr_valo_jump{sprite_index=spr_toroarmor_jump}
   
//Backflip
if armor=1 && backflip=true
   then sprite_index=spr_valo_backflip{sprite_index=spr_toroarmor_backflip}
if armor=1 && backflip=false
   then sprite_index=spr_valo_idle{sprite_index=spr_toroarmor_idle}
   
//Shooting
if armor=1 && shooting=true
   then sprite_index=spr_valo_shoot{sprite_index=spr_toroarmor_shoot}
if armor=1 && shooting=true && hspeed<0 or hspeed>0
   then sprite_index=spr_valo_run_shoot{sprite_index=spr_toroarmor_run_shoot}

//Running
if armor=1 && hspeed<3 or hspeed>-3
   then sprite_index=spr_valo_run{sprite_index=spr_toroarmor_run}
//Walking
if armor=1 && hspeed<=1 or hspeed>=1
   then sprite_index=spr_valo_walk{sprite_index=spr_toroarmor_walk}

//Draw our player
draw_sprite_ext(sprite_index,image_index,x,y,flipped,image_yscale,image_angle,image_blend,image_alpha)

Hope this may help, even if you don't use it you could learn from it. You seem to be a promising coder ^-^