Need help with 2d animation image

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PowerFang

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Posted: 6th Feb 2004 22:00

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I'm trying to make an animated sprite using only 1 image instead of 3 i'm doing currently.

Now its a horse running so it goes image: 1,2,3,2 rinse and repeat

So i put the 4 images into 1 image organised like this:

1 2

3 4

Each is 10 * 10 so the new image is 20 * 20.

My question is this:

How do i then turn that image into an animated sprite. I tried using the Animated Sprite command but i'm either not doing it right or something. Could someone write a quick snippet of code to show me how?

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BearCDPOLD

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Posted: 7th Feb 2004 00:30

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I believe DB pro's Animated Sprite command uses .gif files. You can have your own animation function. Every loop call a function that checks to see if enough time has gone by, and if it has, then get the next part of the image and use that. I'd provide you with code, but I'm a DBClassic dude.

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IanM

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Posted: 7th Feb 2004 00:39

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Nope. It uses standard formats, but there are problems with animating (see the bug forum

)

The easiest way is to load your images individually and animate them yourself.

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sync on
sync rate 0
load image "horse1.bmp", 1
load image "horse2.bmp", 2
load image "horse3.bmp", 3
load image "horse2.bmp", 4 : ` quick fix - waste memory, make it easier

Tick = timer() + 100
ImageNo = 1
sprite 1, 100, 100, ImageNo

do
   if timer() >= Tick
      Tick = Tick + 100
      if ImageNo = 4
         ImageNo = 1
      else
         inc ImageNo
      endif
      sprite 1, sprite x(1), sprite y(1), ImageNo
   endif

   sync
loop

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PowerFang

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Posted: 9th Feb 2004 01:35

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yeah thanks...thats what i have been doing but i wanted to try and cut down my code to make it more efficient.

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