I tried it and at first got the following error:

Exiting: CHR::render(), frame requested is undefined (87178496 of 30)

I'd guess it's drawing the map once before the ent exists. So I used:

if(fps_counter > 0) BlitEntityFrame(100, 100, 0, entity.frame[0], screen);

and it worked fine. (perfectly mimics my char's frame) fps_counter is my own, not built in, so add some type of variable to avoid drawing the ents on first render, maybe that's the problem.

El

You sir are correct. The first entity's number is 0. In fact that could cause a crash as well, if one were to assume that the second entity spawned is entity.blah[2].

El

Do this:

Somewhere in the startup of your map, set up all the map entities' rendering to be hooked to one function:

for(e=0; e<entities; e++)


     HookEntityRender(e,"dwl_IdleMove");

Here's part of what goes in to dwl_IdleMove():

BlitEntityFrame(dwl_EntityScreenX(event.entity),dwl_EntityScreenY(event.entity),event.entity,


                   entity.face[event.entity]-1<<1+(timer/(DWL_FRAME_SPEED-player_speed_offset)%DWL_FRAME_WALK_COUNT)


                  ,screen) ;

The important thing here is that all the entities are rendered using the dwl_IdleMove() function, and the specific entity being referenced at a given time by the entity rendering function is always going to be "event.entity".

Using this information, you can render every map entity using a custom rendering function. This is the method I use for custom animation for all map entities, and it works fine.

turns out I was trying to access ouside of the entity array, sry about that. thx yall