whats a good animation program???

[frenchy_117]

whats a good animation program???

[scotch]

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.

[frenchy_117]

i want the best possible animation program so i can do a really good intro like that one for that byzantine demo or something.

[Archangel (aka SoupDragon)]

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)

[frenchy_117]

ok ill try that...

...but if its crap...   ...




jk

[Archangel (aka SoupDragon)]

A good workman never blames his tools

[scotch]

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 )

[frenchy_117]

crap. but ho0w get that jolt like  on a tv screen on the 7 thingy

[Archangel (aka SoupDragon)]

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!

[frenchy_117]

nah

[Jimi]

you can jolt the screen with ags using shakescreen

[frenchy_117]

really ? how how HOW???

[bspeers]

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.

[TerranRich]

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.