Attack Animation [SOLVED]

[Lavos]

Alright for the past 5 days I've been trying to figure this out and ended up with my face on the desk.
I've tried countless methods and still couldn't get it right so I need help.

What I'm trying to do is to get a number value to count so that the anim can move to the next number, I'm not sure if its clever but, Here is what it looks like now.

```
' Check for attacking animation
    If Player(Index).AttackTimer + (attackspeed / 2) > GetTickCount Then
        If Player(Index).Attacking = 1 Then
        For n = 4 To 7
            Anim = n
        DoEvents
        Next n

```
Basically when cntl key is press the anim displays only 7.

[Lavos]

bump

[BoDu]

    You could try this, its made for 2 frames but it playes them to fast so it don't look that great.

  If Player(Index).Attacking = 1 Then
        n = Rand(4, 5)
        Anim = n - 1
        End If

    It playes me frame 3 and 4 but a way to fast :P

    Btw frames counting from 0 to 4 that mean 5 frames per line, 4 walking 1 attacking. And it will play the last walking frame + attack frame.
    And you also have to change this so it will read corectly your sprite:

> .Left = Anim * (DDSD_Character(Sprite).lWidth / 5)
>         .Right = .Left + (DDSD_Character(Sprite).lWidth / 5)
>     End With
>
>     ' Calculate the X
>     x = GetPlayerX(Index) * PIC_X + Player(Index).XOffset - ((DDSD_Character(Sprite).lWidth / 5 - 32) / 2)

    Anyway there should be a better way to this, well absolutely there its a better way becouse this one sucks :P
    Hope Robin give us a hint :P

[Yxxe]

@Lavos:

> Basically when cntl key is press the anim displays only 7.

That's because it's looping so fast you only see animation 7\. Look at the attacking animation procedures and how GetTickCount is used to interchange between animations if you hold Ctrl down.

[BoDu]

@Lightning:

> That's because it's looping so fast you only see animation 7\. Look at the attacking animation procedures and how GetTickCount is used to interchange between animations if you hold Ctrl down.

Your comment was truly helpfull.

Here its the code with witch i got it working with 3 frames attack animation.
Just add your frames 5 and 6 and make another elseif for frame 7 and it will work.

```
    If Player(Index).AttackTimer + (attackspeed / 4) > GetTickCount Then
        If Player(Index).Attacking = 1 Then
            Anim = 4
        End If
    ElseIf Player(Index).AttackTimer + (attackspeed / 3) + 100 > GetTickCount And Player(Index).Attacking = 1 Then Anim = 3
    ElseIf Player(Index).AttackTimer + (attackspeed / 2) + 200 > GetTickCount And Player(Index).Attacking = 1 Then Anim = 1
    Else
```

[Lavos]

Awsome! Thank you so much for the help! i managed to get it to work now with a 4 attack frames. =) I'm going to run more tests on it and see what else i could do with it.

[BoDu]

@Lavos:

> Awsome! Thank you so much for the help! i managed to get it to work now with a 4 attack frames. =) I'm going to run more tests on it and see what else i could do with it.

Np i'm glad i could help you and i could helped me too. Play with it becouse you can set the frames time slower of faster, or one of them faster the others. Kinda awsome :P