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roswell

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Posted: 26th Apr 2003 07:08

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I have an animated sprite that only has a couple of frames, but my code is looping so quickly, you only see the last frame. Is there a way to slow down the animation without slowing down the whole game? I tried to run a loop that would just paste the same image of the sprite for half a second before pasting the next frame, but my entire game is hanging. Here's what I tried:

function explode(sprid,pointx,pointy)
slowly=timer()
stall = slowly + 500
for f=4 to 8
repeat
sprite 6,pointx-16,pointy-16,f
until slowly > stall
next f
endfunction

Is there a better way to do this, and why wouldn't the above code work?

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Chiwawa

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Posted: 26th Apr 2003 07:40

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hmmmmm..i never use ..sprite...but..

do something like that:

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Time#=Timer()
do
  if (Timer()-Time#>=500)
    Time#=Timer()
    ImageSprite=ImageSprite+1
    if ImageSprite>MaxImageSprite then ImageSprite=FirstImageSprite
  endif 
loop

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