Play Sprite Animation while loading my game?

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aviles22

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Posted: 10th Feb 2014 21:39

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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?

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//SHOW LOADING MESSAGE
	dbLoadImage ( "C:/DarkGDK FP/Loading.png" , 2 );
	dbSprite ( 2, ( dbScreenWidth ( ) / 2 - 262 ), ( dbScreenHeight ( ) / 2 - 167 ), 2);
	dbSync ( );
	dbSync ( );
	dbDeleteSprite(2);

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Rudolpho

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Posted: 11th Feb 2014 01:06

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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.

"Why do programmers get Halloween and Christmas mixed up?"

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Because Oct(31) = Dec(25)

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aviles22

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Posted: 11th Feb 2014 02:06

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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:

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#include "DarkGDK.h"
void UpdateAnimationCycle ( void ); //ADD THIS TO FIX ANIMATIONS!

(Then before dbSync:)

UpdateAnimationCycle(); //ADD THIS TO FIX ANIMATIONS!
dbSync ( );

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