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BatVink

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Posted: 9th Oct 2003 00:36 Edited at: 9th Oct 2003 00:37

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I've tried to introduce an Animated Sprite into my HUD. If I use a PNG file, it doesn't show up at all. If I use a jpg, I simply get a grey square

Here's the code, I've never used animated sprites before so I may be doing something very wrong. The texture image is 2 frames, side by side, the image is 60x30.

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   CREATE ANIMATED SPRITE 1, "bitmaps/lights_red.jpg",2,1,1
   SET SPRITE FRAME 1, 1
   SPRITE 1, 50, 50, 1
   SET SPRITE 1,0,1
   SET sprite priority 1,10

To test everything else is Ok, I created a standard sprite from the same image. This was OK.

Can anyone help me here?

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spooky

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Posted: 9th Oct 2003 02:10

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First off, there are some MAJOR bugs with animated sprites, specially the PLAY SPRITE command. see here: (http://www.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=15999&b=15)

Best bet for now until bug is fixed is to have an extra frame and make first frame blank. You can then set frame to first 'proper' frame and play rest of frames.

Following code will make a 90 * 30 bitmap which is 3 frames side by side. frame1 is blank, frame2 is small circle, frame3 is big circle.
It will play last two frames with interval at half a second

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sync on : sync rate 0
` create a 2 frame anim
ink rgb(255,255,255),0
f$="animsprite.bmp"
circle 45,15,5
circle 75,15,10
get image 1,0,0,90,30,1
if file exist(f$)=1 then delete file f$
save image f$,1
delete image 1

create animated sprite 1,f$,3,1,1
sprite 1,50,50,1
set sprite frame 1,1
do
   play sprite 1,1,2,500
   sync
loop

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las6

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Posted: 9th Oct 2003 09:29

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How about making the frames as separate images and handling the sprite images by hand?

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