vopenchr .5 Crach -- Invalid Movescript length
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pete_michaud
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I've been working with large sprites having 30 frames of animation -- I successfully loaded the source png into the program, but when I tried to save it said I have an invalid movescript length, and crashed the program.
Here's the movescript I used:
F29W2F28W2F27W2F26W2F25W2F24W2F23W2F22W2F21W2F20W2F19W2F18W2F17W2F16W2F15W2F14W2F13W2F12W2F11W2F10W2F9W2F8W2F7W2F6W2F5W2F4W2F3W2F2W2F1W2F0
What I'm going to do is figure out how long I can make it before it crashes -- I know at this point it's between that length above and 50% of that length. I'll get back.
edit: incidentally, in the movescript editor, it displayed the too-long animation correctly -- it didn't crash until I tried to output to a chr file.
edit2: I found out that despite the crash a chr file is produced -- I've also discovered that the chr file works! Animation works as expected despite vopenchr crash.
Posted on 2005-11-13 10:31:33 (last edited on 2005-11-13 10:36:39)
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mcgrue
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vopenchr is not an 'official' supported tool. This failure is most likely due to some fault of it's author, not of verge.
Posted on 2005-11-14 08:23:53
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pete_michaud
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Yeah, I knew Tom wrote it, but I didn't know where else to put the bug -- incidentally, IS there a max length for a movescript?
Posted on 2005-11-14 11:04:23
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mcgrue
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Almost definitly. I'll ask around and get that documented.
Posted on 2005-11-14 12:39:15
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zeromus
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the movescript length in the chr format is effectively unlimited.
I do not have v3 source handy to see how it handles the chr movescripts, but I am pretty sure it will handle monster chr movescripts fine.
Posted on 2005-11-14 13:07:56
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Jesse
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Looks like 254 chars in the verge source to me.
Posted on 2005-11-14 13:22:17
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aen
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I also seem to recall V2 having a limit of 100 characters for movement scripts -- perhaps vopenchr is operating under that assumption.
Posted on 2005-11-14 14:19:39 (last edited on 2005-11-14 14:22:00)
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pete_michaud
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Interesting -- I'd be curious to find out who's right about that. Despite whatever limitations, memory or otherwise, the engine may have built in, in terms of the number of frames possible in a walking animation, the effective limit may be the movescript. Special animations wouldn't be effected though, as you could just split those up into multiple movescripts.
Posted on 2005-11-14 14:48:50
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aen
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Well, from the vopenchr front, I've just had a look at the actual source code, and it does limit to 100 characters. It's interesting that you get a crash though -- from what I can tell it's supposed to pop up a dialog telling you the length is invalid:
if (n > 99)
{
wxMessageBox("Invalid movescript length","Warning", wxOK|wxICON_INFORMATION, NULL);
delete chr;
return (CHRFile*)0;
}
Posted on 2005-11-14 14:59:59
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zeromus
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would you like me to add larger movescript support to the engine? theres nothing i can do about whatever tool that is youre using
Posted on 2005-11-15 13:30:20
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CrazyAznGamer
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Quote: Originally posted by Pete Michaud
I've been working with large sprites having 30 frames of animation
O_O ...
30 frames? There is a point I begin to question whether something is surplus or not.
Are you sure walking needs to be 30 frames or so? I'm sure the same effect can be achieved around 8-10 frames.
Of course, it's entirely up to you, but I seriously wonder whether you truly need 30 frames. Just a thought.
Posted on 2005-11-26 13:05:54
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mcgrue
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Sidescrollers often have long animations like that. However, they have far lower numbers of sprites. RPGs tend to have high numbers of sprites, and doing them all sper-fancy is a good way to grind you into the ground with unsustainable amounts of work.
Posted on 2005-11-26 13:16:38
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pete_michaud
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No, I'd say it's a bit of overkill, actually, but I'm just pushing the limits of the engine to see what I can do.
Posted on 2005-11-29 10:56:24
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CrazyAznGamer
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Did somebody say overkill??
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Sorry, anyways, what are you working on/ planning on working on/ messing around with?
Posted on 2005-11-29 18:27:10
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Overkill
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Quote:Originally posted by CrazyAznGamer
Did somebody say overkill??
Hey guys! :D
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Posted on 2005-11-30 06:14:03
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