organizing animated images
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| how do you organize your animated images? there are different characters that all have walk cycles and attack anims I was thinking of using a 3 dimensional array. One dimension for character-type one for animation-name (walk or attack) and one for frame. |
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| Unless you have squillions of similat character types, you might find it easier to use an instance of a MonsterGraphics class for each, with a 2D array or a collection of 1D arrays attached to each instance. That will allow you to document and easily access special features, e.g. if one monster has a special set of animations, or if some of them lack certain types of animation. And it may also make your game easier to develop as you add one monster at a time independently of the rest. If the game got huge it would also help you to load only necessary graphics into RAM. |
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| true that is a more flexible approach |
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| I have an "Animation" class that holds in an array within it an "ImageFrame" class that holds a pointer to the images and relevant scale/offsets for that image. Each creature template or sprite can be linked to an animation sequence by populating a field of type "Animation" in the sprite with the relevant animation sequence. I can then simply set the animation sequence of any sprite by choosing a different animation sequence. The animation sequences are held in a list object. The animation class also has methods for loading sequences and updating the frame count etc.. |
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| interesting approach Im using the px5 exporter too ;) it exports frames of 256x256 so i have to use autocrop in gimp then i end up with images of different sizes, i then use an imagepacking program, to put them into one big image |
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| did you make the px5 images? I want to use the goblin but its too dark, |
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| Hi slenkar - yes I created the images in a number of different 3d apps (mainly Poser 4 and a little of Softimage XSI 5.0) Some of these images were done quite a long time ago though (2006) so I would have to render them again to fix up some of the brightness issues. |
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| oh its ok, ill just adjust the brightness on the final image thanks for the images, they are quite useful |
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