Rotatable animation

[dnswodn]

It seems that there is no a tutorial on how to make animations rotatable, so I wrote this.
So, Let's go.

The better way: Please read replies #2 and #3.

Another way:
First, as everyone knows, to make buildings rotatable, you have to provide 4 frames, animation is the same.

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[
{
  "id": "$animation00",
  "type": "animation",
  "frames": [
    {"bmp": "image.png"}
  ]
},
{
  "id": "$animation01",
  "type": "animation",
  "frames": [
    {"bmp": "image.png"}
  ]
},
{
  "id": "$animation02",
  "type": "animation",
  "frames": [
    {"bmp": "image.png"}
  ]
},
{
  "id": "$animation03",
  "type": "animation",
  "frames": [
    {"bmp": "image.png"}
  ]
}
]

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And the animation part of the json:

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[{
  //……
  "animation": [
    {"id": "$animation00"},{"id": "$animarion01"},{"id": "$animation02"},{"id": "$animation03"}
  ],
  "frame animation indices": [
     [0],[1],[2],[3] //If the animations rotate incorrectly, you can try [3],[2],[1],[0].
  ]
}]

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About the "frame animation indices":
As everyone knows, the worlds in TheoTown has four directions: SE,NE,NW and SW.These four items([]) correspond to the four directions one by one.
So, the "0" in the first item means that animation00 will be shown in the SE direction, the "1" in the second item means that animation01 will be shown in the NE direction and so on.

Hope this will help you.

[Kulche]

That's a mediocre tutorial, please just use a 4 frame rotation aware animation instead of creating 4 separate animation drafts and then forcing yourself to use animation indices (who in their right mind would even use indices instead of frame?).

[dnswodn]

That's a mediocre tutorial, please just use a 4 frame rotation aware animation instead of creating 4 separate animation drafts and then forcing yourself to use animation indices (who in their right mind would even use indices instead of frame?).

Like this?

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[
  {
    "id": "$animation",
    "type": "animation",
    "frames": [
      {
        "bmp": "image.png",
        "w": 5,
        "count": 4
      }
    ],
    "rotation aware": true
  },
  {
    //…
    "animation": [
      {
        "id": "$animation"
      }
    ]
  }
]

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[Kulche]

yes, much simpler this way

[NSGSEI]

It seems that there is no a tutorial on how to make animations rotatable, so I wrote this.
So, Let's go.

The better way: Please read replies #2 and #3.

Another way:
First, as everyone knows, to make buildings rotatable, you have to provide 4 frames, animation is the same.

Code: Select all    Reset

[
{
  "id": "$animation00",
  "type": "animation",
  "frames": [
    {"bmp": "image.png"}
  ]
},
{
  "id": "$animation01",
  "type": "animation",
  "frames": [
    {"bmp": "image.png"}
  ]
},
{
  "id": "$animation02",
  "type": "animation",
  "frames": [
    {"bmp": "image.png"}
  ]
},
{
  "id": "$animation03",
  "type": "animation",
  "frames": [
    {"bmp": "image.png"}
  ]
}
]

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And the animation part of the json:

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[{
  //……
  "animation": [
    {"id": "$animation00"},{"id": "$animarion01"},{"id": "$animation02"},{"id": "$animation03"}
  ],
  "frame animation indices": [
     [0],[1],[2],[3] //If the animations rotate incorrectly, you can try [3],[2],[1],[0].
  ]
}]

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About the "frame animation indices":
As everyone knows, the worlds in TheoTown has four directions: SE,NE,NW and SW.These four items([]) correspond to the four directions one by one.
So, the "0" in the first item means that animation00 will be shown in the SE direction, the "1" in the second item means that animation01 will be shown in the NE direction and so on.

Hope this will help you.

Thank you very much. You may have solved my problem.