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AGS Support => Beginners' Technical Questions => Topic started by: frenchy_117 on Tue 01/07/2003 18:54:19

Title: whats a good animation program???
Post by: frenchy_117 on Tue 01/07/2003 18:54:19
whats a good animation program???
Title: Re:whats a good animation program???
Post by: scotch on Tue 01/07/2003 18:58:19
What kind of animation do you want to do?  Pixel animation I would guess..  try getting paintshop pro, it comes with animation shop although you'll probably do most of your animating in the main program.
Title: Re:whats a good animation program???
Post by: frenchy_117 on Tue 01/07/2003 19:12:05
i want the best possible animation program so i can do a really good intro like that one for that byzantine demo or something.
Title: Re:whats a good animation program???
Post by: Archangel (aka SoupDragon) on Tue 01/07/2003 19:16:25
Well, Animation Shop that comes with paint shop pro should do the job. The plugins in Animation Shop look similar to some of the effects used in Byzantine (iirc)
Title: Re:whats a good animation program???
Post by: frenchy_117 on Tue 01/07/2003 19:18:11
ok ill try that...

...but if its crap...   ... >:(




jk
Title: Re:whats a good animation program???
Post by: Archangel (aka SoupDragon) on Tue 01/07/2003 19:20:11
A good workman never blames his tools :P
Title: Re:whats a good animation program???
Post by: scotch on Tue 01/07/2003 19:27:49
oh, well that might be hard, you see that wasn't really all animation it was scripted if I remember correctly..  I'm not sure what DS used for the animated parts.. but it wouldn't have been anything fancy.

You could have done all that in PSP.  (well DS could have ;) )
Title: Re:whats a good animation program???
Post by: frenchy_117 on Tue 01/07/2003 19:41:33
crap. but ho0w get that jolt like  on a tv screen on the 7 thingy
Title: Re:whats a good animation program???
Post by: Archangel (aka SoupDragon) on Tue 01/07/2003 19:44:20
Oh yeah that's animated... it'll need a combination of plugins and a lot of hard work, ditching attempts, etc. to get that kind of effect. Give it a shot!
Title: Re:whats a good animation program???
Post by: frenchy_117 on Tue 01/07/2003 20:11:45
nah
Title: Re:whats a good animation program???
Post by: Jimi on Tue 01/07/2003 21:10:22
you can jolt the screen with ags using shakescreen
Title: Re:whats a good animation program???
Post by: frenchy_117 on Wed 02/07/2003 01:41:16
really ? how how HOW???
Title: Re:whats a good animation program???
Post by: bspeers on Wed 02/07/2003 17:15:19
Use shakescreen.

That's the answer.

ShakeScreenBackground might work even better though.

If you still don't understand, try out some basic scripting first, it's really quite straightforward when you get into it.

Also, animations can be done by a series of sprites or by moving objects and characters about in the room.  Learn the MoveCharacter/MoveObject commands, setting transparancy etc.  You can search for all these terms in the help file, which is really useful.
Title: Re:whats a good animation program???
Post by: TerranRich on Thu 03/07/2003 03:57:46
I was originally going to move this post into another forum, but since you are all now talking about scripting, I'll let it go. :)

Just remember to post relevant stuff in the right forums.