My animated SKSprite nodes atlas won't change during touchBegan - ios

Question

I created a sprite with an animated texture atlas. I then want that animation to change based on the direction the sprite is heading. I try to do so with "self.player!.texture = firstFrametexture(ofatlas)"
Here is where I build the player (put inside didMove but the animation starts without having to move?)
func buildPlayer() {
let playerAnimatedAtlas = SKTextureAtlas(named: "animation")
var walkFrames: [SKTexture] = []
let numImages = playerAnimatedAtlas.textureNames.count
for i in 1...numImages {
let playerTextureName = "player\(i)"
walkFrames.append(playerAnimatedAtlas.textureNamed(playerTextureName))
}
walkingPlayer = walkFrames
let firstFrameTexture = walkingPlayer[0]
player! = SKSpriteNode(texture: firstFrameTexture)
player!.position = CGPoint(x: frame.midX, y: frame.midY)
addChild(player!)
}
Here is where I animate the player
func animatePlayer() {
player!.run(SKAction.repeatForever(
SKAction.animate(with: walkingPlayer,
timePerFrame: 0.5,
resize: false,
restore: true)),
withKey:"walkingInPlacePlayer")
}
Here is where I try to change the animation. Everything works, the if statement are correctly executed. Just nothing changes
override func touchesBegan(_ touches: Set, with event: UIEvent?) {
super.touchesBegan(touches, with: event)
if let location = touches.first?.location(in: self) {
let horizontalAction = SKAction.move(to: location, duration: 1.0)
horizontalAction.timingMode = SKActionTimingMode.easeOut
player?.run(horizontalAction)
let playerAnimatedAtlas = SKTextureAtlas(named: "animation")
let lplayerAnimatedAtlas = SKTextureAtlas(named: "animationleft")
var walkFrames: [SKTexture] = []
var lwalkFrames: [SKTexture] = []
let numImages = playerAnimatedAtlas.textureNames.count
for i in 1...numImages {
let playerTextureName = "player\(i)"
let playerLeftTextureName = "lplayer\(i)"
walkFrames.append(playerAnimatedAtlas.textureNamed(playerTextureName))
lwalkFrames.append(lplayerAnimatedAtlas.textureNamed(playerLeftTextureName))
}
walkingPlayer = walkFrames
lwalkingPlayer = lwalkFrames
let firstFrameTexture = walkingPlayer[0]
let leftFrameTexture = lwalkingPlayer[0]
if location.x > player!.position.x {
self.player!.texture = firstFrameTexture
print("rightsuccess")
} else if location.x < player!.position.x {
self.player!.texture = leftFrameTexture
print("leftsuccess")
}
}
}