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DarkBASIC Discussion / How do you apply an image (animated) to an object?

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Game Freak10K
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2004 14:14 Edited at: 23rd Sep 2004 14:16
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When I use a set of images to make up enemy movement, I try to apply them to an object so when I use that object in a FPS, it looks like the enemy is moving. However Ive had no luck...anyone know how I can accomplish this?

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Posted: 23rd Sep 2004 14:40
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Are you talking about animated textures?

There's a couple ways:

1:Use memblocks and swap textures repeatedly on objects, could be kinda slow.

2ut all your images in a slideshow format and use scroll texture and scroll it by an amount so that one frame moves up each time you scroll.

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Slideshow format?
I just tried out memblock command--it needs enhanced mode to run.

I had been trying to do something like this:

for i = 1 to 4
load image str$(i)+".bmp",i+4 : `textures for FPS style sprites
next i
make object plain 1, 10, 10
do
Get image i, 0,0,29,47
Sprite 1, 5,5, i
texture object 1, i
loop

I get some blue fuzz and thats all. The fuzz looks like its animating itself though, so I cant be 100% wrong. Can I?

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Think I got something--
load an avi file with the animation and play/loop the animation. I found the example in the Dbtutor program. Theres some good stuff in there.

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The only problem with animations is that they are slow, especially when you try to scale them and move them around as they're playing.

Another method:
Say you have a 10-frame animation for a sprite. Make 10 plains and texture them each with a frame then hide the last 9, and hide,unhide,hide,unhide,hide,unhide, flipping through the different plains with the various plains on them.

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Wouldnt that slow the game down too?

EDIT: Not that Im complaining or anything...
EDIT again: But how would I get all of the plains to register as one object? Im using the animations for an enemy in a FPS.

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This is what I do for animated textures on objects (explosions, smoke, plasma...):

Create an image, say, 512x64. That gives you 8 images that are 64x64. Grab these eight images, like this:


Then, create your object, and animate it like this:


Get it?

Good Luck

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tried it...doesnt work. Keep getting:
Runtime error at line 4. Images range from 1 to 65535

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That means somewhere you gave it an image that did not exist.

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Ok ive been hackin at this, the image is there its just not...there? Is there no way to make simple enemies like in doom? I dropped 3D enemies, if I drop 2D enemies ill have nothing!!

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Calmness. As far as I can tell, Bolt's code works. If you copied and pasted it exactly, then make sure that you change "if frame>8 then frame=1" to represent the number of images you have.

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When you ran Bolts code (thanks by the way) was it smooth or did the image twitch a little bit when it moved from the last frame to the first? If not then I think its my computer..even though for a 400MHZ it runs RTCW, Q3, the deadly dozen...etc all at full power


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Ok I just tried like 4 different images and Im still getting the same error. Is this some kind of joke? The image is in the correct directory, ive copied the code-copy+paste-straight into Darkbasic and im stil getting the same g*d d*mn error. Forgive my language please...just so frustrating.

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Yes, I think everyone here can understand how frustrating coding can be And I assure you its no joke. I had no problems with the code whatsoever. No twitching when switching from the last to the first. If your still getting an error, I'm not sure what to say (besides making sure that you changed the name of the loaded in images to reflect your image names, but I doubt that's the problem)

If you would post some code, we might be able to help you some more.

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