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2D All the way! / Anyone know how to slow down a sprites animation?

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Game Freak10K
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Posted: 11th Oct 2004 12:29
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The sprite animates very quickly with sync rate 0, but if I drop the sync rate, the whole game goes with it. How do you slow down the animation of a sprite without using the sync command?

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PoHa!84
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Posted: 11th Oct 2004 13:02
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Slow down the amount of times you call the sprite command by use of a variable, and the wait command... hmm... but the wait command isn't very useable in games, for the most part, but maybe this will help some:



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Posted: 12th Oct 2004 14:43
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So what your saying is.."GFreak its impossible!"
The wait command indeed does slow the program to a crawl. Im thinking maybe if I load like 3 or 4 of the same cel and run the program WITHOUT low sync or wait command, itll look a little better. Thanks PoHa!84

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Posted: 12th Oct 2004 14:54 Edited at: 12th Oct 2004 14:55
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Direct from the help files:




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Posted: 12th Oct 2004 15:15 Edited at: 12th Oct 2004 15:25
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JeBus, I think those commands are for DBPro...Im using Classic, thanks though.
I loaded each image 16 times and it slowed the animation down enough to look decent.

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Ah, well, can't help you there then, I don't remember enough of the DBC stuff.


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Posted: 12th Oct 2004 20:59
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Don't know any DBC so don't know if this will help



do

if timer()>spritedelay
make next frame of sprite
etc
etc
etc
spritedelay=timer()+250
endif

stuff
stuff
stuff

sync
loop


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Posted: 13th Oct 2004 04:18
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Something I thought about late last night right before bed:

Get the current time, then check how much time has passed between that time and the new time, then update the sprite if enough time has passed...

Sorry, no source code as of right now. Maybe later... gotta go.

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100% Pure Dave
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use a variable that gets incremented on each loop. when the variable hits a certain number change the current animation frame then set the variable back to 0.

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That would give different animation speeds according to computers power.
Best to use timer like this:




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Ive settled with loading the same image X amount of times so it slows down. You see Im sticking the animated images to an object so I can old school FPS enemies, eitehr way the games gonna slow down like hell..im using DBC. Thanks for all the help guys

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loading the image over and over would actually be forcing a game slowdown on the player instead of simply regulating the speed at which the image changes. Using a counter variable would be the better way to go, in my opinion.


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Maybe I should give up? I kinda wanted to put a little something in the competition, but I now see its not gonna happen, Ive just run outta time, so y'know what?..Im scrapping this project for good. Im gonna migrate back to trying 3D modeling and animation. Thank you all.
This is GameFreak10k.......signing off...*

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