I have an idea that I'm sure could be implemented, and I just wanted to throw it out there -- I'd like to be able to define a move script for each idle direction.

I'm sure you're familar with games in which you stop and your character shuffles around and scratches himself or whatever while he waits for you to move him. I'd like to do that.

I figured it would be, but I just thought I'd throw the idea out.

I didn't abandon it, I'm just saying it would be a useful feature to build into the engine.

Hehe, this is why we program -- to salve the wounds of ambiguity inflicted by the spoken word.

And if you're to add idle movescripts, may as well add ones for diagonals too! Maybe, even allow the player to declare custom animation scripts for their characters!

darin.mak:

chr_version 5

in darin.png

out darin.chr

frame_w 16

frame_h 32

hotspot_x 0

hotspot_y 16 

hotspot_w 16 

hotspot_h 16

frames_per_row 5

frame_rows 6

d_idle 0

u_idle 5

l_idle 10

r_idle 15

d_walk F0W10F1W10F2W10F1W10F0W10F3W10F4W10F3W10

u_walk F5W10F6W10F7W10F6W10F5W10F8W10F9W10F8W10

l_walk F10W10F11W10F12W10F11W10F10W10F13W10F14W10F13W10

r_walk F15W10F16W10F17W10F16W10F15W10F18W10F19W10F18W10

custom blink F24W20F0W20

Elsewhere:

EntityAnimate(player, "blink", 4); // Blink four times.