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2D All the way! / Trying to make a Manual Animator

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Megaman X Gold
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Posted: 30th Jun 2003 18:12 Edited at: 30th Jun 2003 18:13
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Since "create sprite animation" is an unreliable way of creating my sprite animations as far as it seems (with that horrible blur) I figured that maybe I could program up my own manual animator. Well...it doesn't work, and I assume I just don't understand the timer() function as much as I had hoped.

Now I know my code is in great error and probably should never work...but I am posting it here in case it inspires any ideas for anyone. If so, please report back to me? Thankies.

(posting code in source code button below)

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ReD_eYe
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Posted: 30th Jun 2003 19:08
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you only need 1 sprite then just change the image number acording to how much time has gone by

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Posted: 30th Jun 2003 20:25 Edited at: 30th Jun 2003 20:28
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Thanks...but I'm an idiot and I still don't understand how the timer works nor what I'm doing wrong. I wanted to be able to use something I wrote to make this work, but I'm not smart enough. lol. I'll just have to use that other script which I believe was written by Raven. *tear*

Anyways...here's the new script that I made (started it over after I read what you said)

PS: In my last post I tried to set the timer() as a non-integer, and I forgot it was counted in milliseconds instead of seconds. So I fixed that in this new script, while it works...just as much as the other one did. (sprite doesn't move, let alone animate...and the starting sprite is always blurry, which is just so strange)

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ReD_eYe
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Posted: 1st Jul 2003 00:01
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you don't need all the sync's just one before the 'loop' will be fine. the timer() is a much bigger number than 1000 or 3000 as it is the internal system time(or something???) so your code won't work, i'll try and fix your code/ show you a working example tommorow as i am tired now. you are using dark basic classic right???

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Posted: 1st Jul 2003 02:11
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No, DarkBASIC Pro.

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Algae Man
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Don't use the timer functions for animation, as they just complicate things. Instead, make a variable (let's say t) and each time you go through the loop, increment it. Once it gets to a certain value, like 10, change the sprite image and set t back to zero.

Example (assuming that each frame of your sprite is a different image, 1,2,3,4,5,etc.):

a=1

do

sprite 1,sprite x,sprite y,a

t=t+1

if t=10
a=a+1
t=0
endif

sync
loop



a is the image number. t is the time variable. If you want a longer/shorter pause between each frame, adjust the number in the statement, if t=10. Hope this helps.

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Nilrem
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Posted: 5th Jul 2003 01:28
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If he really did want to use the timer() he could do:


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Pincho Paxton
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Yes do use the timer()...Do not increment a variable! Incrementing a variable will be different on all computers, timer() will be accurate.

Time = Timer()+500


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If time<= Timer()

Time = Timer()+500..........(500 = Half a second)

Increase your animation frame here


Loop


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