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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Create Animated Sprite???

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Shady Simpson
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Posted: 16th May 2003 23:12
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Hi all,

I'm trying to figure out how the create animated sprite and play sprite commands work.

Could someone post a simple example bit of code of how to make a repetitive animation.

I've got all the media, just need to know how it works

Thanx.
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ICERGB
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Posted: 17th May 2003 14:39
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There may be a small bug in the actual animated sprite command with patch 4, but is fixable for now... But will probably be fixed in the future which might hurt your code...

You take a large image say 300X300 pixels.
This image contains several smaller images 100X100
3 across and 3 down...

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create animated sprite 4,"barholder.bmp",3,3,4
"Sprite number, filename, across, down, image number"
the accross and down numbers split the main image into 3x3 parts equally... So Image 1 is 0,0 to 100,100 and image 2 is 100,0 to 200,100 and image 3 is 200,0 to 300,100 etc


This command creates the sprite number and image number, so you do not need to set these first.

If you are using more than one animated sprite, you need to set their default sizes... Presumably the size you created them in the first place. Otherwise DBpro will resize them for you.

The Bug as per say, would take your frame number 1 and make it number 2 and the sprite 9 would make it 10. So you would need to create a 3x4 grid and access "frames" 2-10
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ICERGB
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should read

create animated sprite 4,"barholder.bmp",3,3,4
"Sprite number, filename, across, down, image number"
the accross and down numbers split the main image into 3x3 parts equally... So frame 1 is 0,0 to 100,100 and frame 2 is 100,0 to 200,100 and frame 3 is 200,0 to 300,100 etc
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ICERGB
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Posted: 17th May 2003 14:47
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I would use a program such as flash and create an animation and export them as bitmaps...
Then make a program from DBpro import each bitmap and export them all as one large bitmap.

This is the easiest way to get them to sit properly in the large image and have a lot of smaller images in it.

You would need the save_bitmap.dll
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Posted: 17th May 2003 14:53
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see source above...

This would be a .bmp file below.

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Shady Simpson
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Thanx for the replies ice, btw do you know where I can get my hands on a free 2D Animator

Thanx.

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Posted: 18th May 2003 17:58
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You could use a skinning animation technique with almost any graphic program.

find a good default size and keep saving them after you have changed them around a bit. add numbers to the name you saved it under
name01.bmp
name02.bmp
name03.bmp

but no free animators I can think of...
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