A better way to load animation...
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| Is there one? Currently, the default loadanimImage() and IndiePath's excellent single-surface function both require you to have a large, single image that holds all of your frames side by side. I have 200 frames of animation for one of the characters in my game, and I'm not done yet. 3DSMax renders these images all as seperate files, it cannot render them as a single strip. Doing so would be foolish anyway. How do I load these images into my program properly? Right now I'm loading all 200 images into an array for easy indexing, but I know this is a bad way to do it. Here is a link to an exe and the source to the current build of my game: http://soldiers.250free.com/BlitZMax/Rpg/RPG_Ed_Nov06_05.zip Arrow keys move. Hit F1 for more info. This problem seems so have been addresses here: http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=52658 But the code given doesn't seem to make any sense. It doesn't even iterate through all the files in a folder. |
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| Some time ago, Taumel created a tool named Streifen which can combine images into animstrips. Check out the following thread: http://blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=42720&hl=streifen Although with that # of images, you would still end up using a bunch of animstrips as well... Unless they're pretty tiny of course. Depending on the images you have, you may want to consider putting seperate animation sequences into seperate animstrips. Failing that, using an array isn't so bad either I would think... |
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