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Dark GDK / LoadAnimation and PlayAnimationToImage

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Unkelben
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Posted: 27th Oct 2005 19:59
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I use these all the time in my game, problem is, it seems dbPlayAnimationToImage doesn\\\'t wait for the animation to be fully loaded before executing. That results in getting a certain number of black screens before the animation starts. The slower the computer, the longer the black screen.

That really hurts the look of the game, I\\\'d like to be able to go from one animation to another without visual interruption, even if that means waiting a bit longer before getting the new one.

Is there a way to check if the animation is ready to to play before going on?

Jonathan
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Morcilla
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Posted: 28th Oct 2005 15:41 Edited at: 28th Oct 2005 15:42
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even if that means waiting a bit longer before getting the new one.
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Then find out how much it takes to load with dbTimer(), and use that info to make the program wait and do not play the animation until you know that it is fully loaded.

Or maybe you could pre-load those animations at start-up and keep them loaded until play time, then unload...
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Unkelben
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Posted: 28th Oct 2005 18:22
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The problem is : how do I know when it's fully loaded? The only way I've found so far is to sample random pixel on the Image generated by PlayAnimationToImage to see if it's something else than 0.

As for the timing, it would be useless becaue it's going to be different from one computer to the other.

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Posted: 28th Oct 2005 18:44
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LoadAnimation would never really be able to load it all in memory - some AVI files can get very, very big...

What you could do is detect when it starts playing...

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Unkelben
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Posted: 28th Oct 2005 18:50
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Right! But how?

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Morcilla
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Posted: 28th Oct 2005 20:04
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providing enough time? Yeah, maybe the time isn't the same in all computers, but you can give a reasonable time, enough for most computers.
If someone has a low-end PC, it is kind of natural to experience some delays, or maybe the animations could be smaller for them.

I know, it's only a workaround
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Posted: 29th Oct 2005 03:02
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dbAnimationPlaying

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