wooh! just got back from Cradle of Filth show!! ..not that any of you know who that is... em. nevermind.

anyway. is there an *easy* way to give a CHR "standing still" frames but not have the frames in the movement cycle? Like if you wanted to make the CHR lean on his sword kinda as if it were a cane you wouldnt want that frame in his walking down cycle it would look like he keeps stabbing the ground. Can you do this in the .mak file or would this require more hardcore scary scripting stuff?

Also, TSB, 2.7 can import tiles of any size right? How exactly will this work? say you got a house thats 200x200 pixels. could you import the whole thing in one easy doey and then within maped paste the house from the vsp in smaller chunks at a time? Cause you want the bottom portion of the house to be in a different layer than the top of the house so your CHR can walk behind it... and my tiles are always odd and dont fit nicely into 16x16 blocks. also... will we be able to make obstruction blocks any size or just 16x16 squares like it is now? diagonal obstructions... oooooh....

just wondering so i can plan out how im going to do my art. dont wanna have to redo everything. n stuff. seems like i wanted to ramble about some other stuff. cant remember. bleh whatever. im tired.

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Say you have another frame apart from the movement animations in which the player "leans on his sword" (to use your example). If that frame is #15, all you'd have to do to access that frame in verge is call this:

partymove("Z15");

Of course it would take some tweaking, since that only changes the frame. A more useful routine would be something like:

partymove(#,"Z15W20Z0");

This makes the entity lean on his sword, wait 20, and then revert back to normal. Always call "Z0" at the end of using special frames or the entity will be frozen in the frame even after you regain control of it.

Aside from that, I've personally had alot of problems with entities moving inside of loops, but you don't have to worry about that now, it's just something to look forward to. ^_~

- choris

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wri2555@yahoo.com

choris gives good advice, but that only works if you're setting frames in VC. To do the same effect in the normal movement script, you simply set a different "idle" frame than any of the walking frames.

F.ex. you could make frame 0 "idle down" and frames 1-5 "walking down" then specify the lines in the MAK file as such:

didle 0
dscript F1W10F2W10F3W10F2W10F1W10F4W10F5W10F4W10
(or whatever your movement script is)

Just don't use the idle frame in the move script at all!

That is all.

--Invicticide

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We don't need better engines, we need better creation tools!

nt

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