Animations help

[Mr.Trant]

Ya, how do u make a character move and animating at the same time, like i have a jump animation where he dives but i cant make him move at the same time, or vice versa... i have this as my script....


   SetCharacterView (THEONE,4);
   AnimateCharacter (THEONE,1,5,0);
MoveCharacterStraight(THEONE,player.x-400,player.y);
while ((IsKeyPressed(68)>0)&&(character[THEONE].walking)) AnimateCharacter (THEONE,1,4,0);
StopMoving(THEONE);
}



HELP  

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

I had the same problem a few times, here's what I did for, say, Larry's shooting to death -

*I imagined this square |---------------|
                                     |                   |
                                     |      3    2     |
                                     |  4               |
                                     | 5          1    |
                                     |---------------|

The numbers represent the place where Larry's bottom-left pixel would have to be.

From then on, I just redrew it all, but instead of doing a neat row-and-column thing I did -

       |---------------|            |---------------|          
       |                   |            |                  |
       |                   |            |           2     |
       |                   |            |                  |
       |             1    |            |                  |
       |---------------|            |---------------|

You see? He makes an arch, going like      ------  
                                                                /        \
                                                              /            \
                                                             V            ^


And from here on, just tile those sprites and import them!

Hope I was clear enough. If you're doubtful about my system, check out at the critic's lounge my "Larry 2 teaser" - the dog jumping out of the car, the cowgirl, and his death were all made like this.

PS - in other words, include the movement in the animation :)

[Mr.Trant]

uhhh? idk, but i have tha animation as left run, but it wont go all the way thru??? how do i solve it

[Jimi]

maybe if you just make him move in the same place. For example, draw it in a paint program, on the full room size, and have him actually move on the drawing, then import them into ags sprites, and into views.

[Pumaman]

You are calling AnimateCharacter repeatedly which keeps restarting the animation. Do this instead:

SetCharacterView (THEONE,4);
AnimateCharacter (THEONE,1,5,0);
MoveCharacterStraight(THEONE,player.x - 400,player.y);

AnimateCharacter (THEONE,1,4,1);
while ((IsKeyPressed(68)>0)&&(character[THEONE].walking)) {
Wait(1);
}
ReleaseCharacterView(THEONE);
StopMoving(THEONE);