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2D All the way! / How do I animate sprites

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D18AGON
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Hi I am new to this, this is my first steps. How do sprites work? I need good step by step directions on how to load a sprite and how to attach the images in a way that will make it animate, and also how to actually make it animate, I don't see an animate sprite command in the help files, I am really at a loss on how to do this. If you could also tell me how I can get the sprite to move across the screen as he walks that would be usefull.
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D18AGON
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I have 5 seperately drawn images ready to make into a sprite animation I drew in art dabbler then saved into dark basic media files. Not sure what to do next to make sprite animation, need help plz.
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D18AGON
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Ok, I found out how to succesfuly animate a sprite, now what I need to know is how to set the speed of the sprite anim, please tell me what to type and where to type it in this source code I have put here so I can set the speed, cos I don't know.
Also how can I make the sprite move accross the screen as it is animated so I can do walking/traveling, plz show snippet of source code that is as simple as can be.
I'd better ask this too, how do I make A background scroll up, down,left,right,diagonaly, any direction. Plz help begginer if you can.
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Mystyk
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Posted: 26th Sep 2004 05:48 Edited at: 26th Sep 2004 05:50
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I'm trying to animate my sprites in DBPro using the "CREATE ANIMATED SPRITE" and "PLAY SPRITE" commands. Any luck on using these?

If you aren't doing it that way, then you can simply add a "WAIT" command in your loop for a delay. Like this:



This code assumes you have 5 "frames" of animation stored in 5 images. The SET SPRITE command then changes the image of the sprite, in effect generating animation. The WAIT 50 is supposed to wait 50ms before continuing, but I find that it waits a lot longer than a ms. You can change this value to get your delay correct.

Hope this helps! I could not get your source to open.
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D18AGON
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I know how to get a sprite to animate, what i need to know now is how ti set the speed, here is my code (that works), where and what would i type into this to set speed?

sync on
Load Image "Image 1.bmp",1
Load Image "Image 2.bmp",2
Load Image "Image 3.bmp",3
Load Image "Image 4.bmp",4
Load Image "Image 5.bmp",5


do
inc n
if n > 5 then n = 1
sprite 1,x,y,n

sync

Loop

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Posted: 27th Sep 2004 04:14
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I'm using this format myself (multiple BMP's) for my latest project, and it seems to work well.

I'm delaying the animation using a simple counter. Here's some swaydo code for you (did anybody get that joke? Old programmer school joke).



In this method, the threshold is the number of iterations between frame updates; the higher the threshold value the slower the animation. I've used this method in my project and it works perfectly.
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D18AGON
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Isn't their a simpler command to set the speed of the sprite anim like "set sprite speed 1,20" that I could type in somrwhere?

I also need to know how to set where the starting position on the screen the sprite will load.

I also need to know how to make program that loads up a sprite anim and plays it when I press an assighned button. for egg.
"If right key then play sprite 1" Help us out. After I got this worked out then I'm moving on to collision.
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Posted: 30th Sep 2004 14:50
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Can you tell me where i can download Art dabbler?

I am a newb at DbasicPro creator.
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D18AGON
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You might be able to get it with the Acecad graphics tablet, a good quality graphics tablet at a low price. (hardware form) At least you can in my world.
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