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Dark GDK / Play Sprite Animation while loading my game?

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aviles22
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Location: New Jersey, USA
Posted: 10th Feb 2014 21:39
The code below works for a basic sprite with no animatio. However, when I setup an animated sprite from my sprite sheet (a looping circle with 12 frames) I cannot get it to play the animation. It just shows frame #1. I tested outside of the loading process and it works fine.

Please tell me how to play animated sprites while loading?

Rudolpho
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Posted: 11th Feb 2014 01:06
It won't work because it's single threaded.
You might be able to play an animation while loading things, but I wonder if the whole animation system isn't broken in DarkGDK (never really used it myself but I recall hearing something like that).
The other thing to do would be splitting your loading so that each disk access is fast enough that you can load x amount of data, then update the sprite one frame, load some more data and so on.


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aviles22
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Posted: 11th Feb 2014 02:06
Thank You Rudolpho. I actually went crazy with the broken animation system until I Googled and found a fix to get it back working. It was something that wasn't updated and should have been but the fix is as follows:



I'm love DarkGDK and DarkGDK.net but it seems support and TGC is leaving it behind and focusing more on AppGameKit and FPS Reloaded. I wish they'd also be more specific to their products for sale not being supported anymore. Example: I purchased Blitzwerks only to find out it doesn't work in DarkGDK.net. Another example is the old FPS Creator had the capability to export your map to a DBO and bring it into DarkGDK. That was awesome and brilliant but again, GONE! They gave up on it to focus more on people with no programming experience!
Mobiius
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Posted: 14th Feb 2014 18:02
Use a video file, or an animated gif as your animation. Both will work fine as I've used that method in the past.

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