Animated Inventory Items

[Freydall]

A short simple question... it's easy to animate cursors but what if you want an animated item cursor, like a creature that blinks or an electronic device with flashing lights? Quite sure there's nothing about this in the manual, and if there is then my apologies.

[Ashen]

Unless it's been added in the new betas, there's no way to animate Inventory items without scripting it. However, strazer wrote this handy module a while back, which should take care of that for you.

[Freydall]

I put " InvItemAnimation.Start(iMGLVE, 7, 0, 10, eRepeat); " in the global script under repeatedly execute, and it says "unexpexted: InvItemAnimation"... What else do I need to put?

[Ashen]

When you say "under repeatedly execute", you haven't placed it outside of the function, have you? Off hand, that's the only thing I can think of that would give that error. "Unexpected (commandname)" errors are usually when a function is called from a part of the script it shouldn't be.

Also, you should only need to call that command once (unless you want to change the animation, of course), so game_start might be a better place than rep_ex.

[Freydall]

I've now put... :

#sectionstart game_start  // DO NOT EDIT OR REMOVE THIS LINE
function game_start() {
  // called when the game starts, before the first room is loaded
}

InvItemAnimation.Start(iMGLVE, 7, 0, 10, eRepeat);

#sectionend game_start  // DO NOT EDIT OR REMOVE THIS LINE

...but it still comes up with the unexpected error.


Oops, that was clumsy. Yep, just noticed that I put it outside the {}. Cheers! Thanks for the help...