It was possible even in v2 to have sprites of any size. However, thanks to a great deal of whining on my part and the grace of vecna, sprites now can have any size of obstruction core (whereas before they had to be 16x16).

To change these is... actually not known to me off the top of my head (I've been busy with menu code for Sully, and website code for here... and since, of the official demos, only Sully 3 will have oversized characters... it hasn't been a personal priority). They're definitly makefile parameters.

As for the animation limit: probably, but hopefully the limit is, at the least, 65335. If it's anything lower (ie 256), I'll have angry words with aen or zeromus or vecna or whomever made the last format. 256+ is feasable in a complex chr... 65k frames is a bit excessive.

Can you even add predefined animations into the chr format? I've wanted this for years, but AFAIK it's not in. My knowledge in such affairs are woefully inadequate.

The documentation is my and thinice's court right now. Guilt-tripping Zero will only get you vsp management features in maped 3... and not very effectively at that! ;D

" Can you even add predefined animations into the chr format? I've wanted this for years, but AFAIK it's not in. My knowledge in such affairs are woefully inadequate. "

When you say pre-defined animations, do you mean additional animations for attacking or whatever? Or animations assigned to a specific key? Or how many frames you can have in a particular animation?

If you do mean additional animation arrays, i noticed sully has several extras for emotes and whatnot, so it looks like you can have several more at least, is it limited to that?

Am I even making any sense? :)

Thanks for your quick reply :)

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The d_walk, l_walk, u_walk, and r_walk are obviously links to animation frames... but can you add more of these for attacking animations? Thats the major question I'm getting at. What about single frames too like surprised and shocked.. etc. Emotes essentially. How are those implimented? Sorry to be such a pain in the ass, I just need to know where my limitations are on sprite creation. Thanks again!


There are no other predefined frame routines, which is what mcgrue meant. So if you want any other frames from your sprite, do:

EntityMove("Z#");

where # is the frame number and repeat that with wait commands in the string as many times needed.

I don't know if you know this, also, but make sure that you realize that sprites and entities in V3 are two different things. Entities are the little people you see moving around on the map. Sprites (the new system actually handled by the V3 exe)are a new. You could always do them before, as long as you coded them yourself, but V3 has a system to handle them now.

In regards to non standard animation sequences like attacks, dancing, whatever, if my assumptions about callbacks are true, it should prove fairly simple to feed an entity a move script, and set a callback to "think" again when the move script will have been completed and pass a new move script or return control the the entities default Movement Type, or in the case of the player entity, to the (human) player.

El Hablador de las Oraciones Largas.

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So much Karma, that in fact you can play video games all day without your girlfriend nagging you about not spending enough time with her constantly :)

Thats alot of Karma.

Fool! That's a myth like the Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Grail!

...the Nazis were looking for this Karma, you know. Hitler thought it was the key to winning the war.

I'm pretty sure that's not a female. If you're absolutely sure it is, you might want to check her for a pulse.

Off topic, but has to be said: Kirby Air Ride is quite possibly the worst thing ever. And I include the Third Reich in that.

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Off topic, but has to be said: Kirby Air Ride is quite possibly the worst thing ever. And I include the Third Reich in that.

That's IT. You're not getting away with insulting Kirby Air Ride and getting away with it! That game is a more than acceptable entertaining diversion for an hour or two. Plus, riding around on someone's luggage is surreal yet satisfying. You're just objecting to a series of games where the main character is pink. The unlockeables keep it nicely paced, too.

And the Third Reich were quite good. Without them, we wouldn't have Medal of Honour, BF:1942 or Call of Duty. Obvoiusly, the persecution of the Jews causes them to lose a few points there..

Without the nazis, who would Indiana Jones fight? Monopolies?

Indiana Jones and the Trustbuter of Doom just doesn't have the same ring.