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From: Andrew Murray <mad.max@which.net>
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Subject: Re: Animation
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 22:51:53 +0100
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Cheers tones you're a real cool guy. You helped me discover animation on the
Yaroze (no mean feat!) What's yer web address and I'll put it on my web site. Mine
is at

http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/~leon17

Thanx

Max

Tones wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
>
> Don't know of any tutorials, 'cos I was in a similar situation nearly a year
> ago.  If your still stuck in the meantime, try using arrays to store your u
> and v values- it's quick and a great deal easier to maintain. Ie. :
>
> #define NUM_ANIMS (23)             // Number of animations
> #define ANIM_LEN_1 (10)             //10 Frame animation
>
> int ANIM1U[10] = { 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100 };        // U
> positions for anim 1 which has 10 frames
> int ANIM1V[10] = { 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30 };                    //
> V positions for anim 2
>
> Ie then to set player1 to frame 2 of anim 1 , do player1.u = ANIM1U[1],
> player1.v = ANIM1V[1];
>
> Then all I do is call an animition procedure which handles EVERY type of
> animation you have set up.  Even better, if you define an animation structure
> as an array
> the size of the number of animations, you can do all sorts of cool routines,
> and it's bloody easy to maintain, such as :
>
> struct ANIM_STRUCT
> {
>  int ANIM_DELAY;  // How long to delay between each frame
>  int CURRENT_FRAME; // How far into the animation has it played?
>  int STILL_PLAYING;   // Is the animation still playing ?
>  int COUNTER;            // How long till the next frame plays (I.e. has the
> counter reached the delay variable for this animation?)
> } ANIM_DETAIL[NUM_ANIMS];
>
> Make sure you write an initialisation routine though, so that the values are
> set for later use.  If your interested, my procedure for the animation handler
> in my new game (which is still a secret :)  )  looks like this :
>
> void AnimPlayer1Control(int AnimNumber, int *AnimArrayU, int *AnimArrayV)  //
> Pass the animation you want to play, and the pointers to the ANIM1U
> {
> // array (or ANIM2U etc) and the V array.
>
>  // This procedure controls the animation routines required for Player 1
>
>  ANIM_DETAIL[AnimNumber].COUNTER++;
>  PLAYER_DETAIL[PLAYER_ONE].CURRENT_ANIM = AnimNumber;
>  PLAYER_DETAIL[PLAYER_ONE].STILL_PLAYING=1;
>  PLAYER_DETAIL[PLAYER_ONE].AnimArrayU = AnimArrayU;
>  PLAYER_DETAIL[PLAYER_ONE].AnimArrayV = AnimArrayV;
>
>  if ( ANIM_DETAIL[AnimNumber].COUNTER > ANIM_DETAIL[AnimNumber].ANIM_DELAY )
>  {
>   ANIM_DETAIL[AnimNumber].COUNTER=0;
>   if ( ANIM_DETAIL[AnimNumber].CURRENT_FRAME < LENANIM[AnimNumber] )
>   {
>    player1.u = AnimArrayU[ANIM_DETAIL[AnimNumber].CURRENT_FRAME];
>    player1.v = AnimArrayV[ANIM_DETAIL[AnimNumber].CURRENT_FRAME];
>    ANIM_DETAIL[AnimNumber].CURRENT_FRAME++;
>   }
>   else
>   {
>    ANIM_DETAIL[AnimNumber].COUNTER=0;
>    ANIM_DETAIL[AnimNumber].CURRENT_FRAME=0;
>    ANIM_DETAIL[AnimNumber].STILL_PLAYING = 0;
>    PLAYER_DETAIL[PLAYER_ONE].STILL_PLAYING=0;
>
>    //Reset Player 1 to normal standing stance
>
>    player1.u = P1_STAND_U;
>    player1.v = P1_STAND_V;
>   }
>  }
> }
>
> // *********end***********
>
> I know it's a little crap - but it does the job nicely.  If you base yours
> around this, or if someone else does it  a little tidier, use that - but
> otherwise the general
> rule of thumb is pretty much the same no matter which way you do it. And as
> everything is controlled by arrays, you can muck around with the sizes and
> settings to your hearts content!
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Cheers!
>
> Tones 8)
>
> Andrew Murray wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know where I can pick up a tutorial on 2D animation on the
> > Net Yaroze?
> >
> > Cheers.

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