Animated Arrows

[Jaiden]

The title pretty much explains it. Is there a way to make it so arrows have a couple of frames of animation when they fly?

I'm sure it will take some intense editing, but I'm just wondering if it's possible.  :icon_crap:

[Irhymer]

Maybe adding a spell animation into the onattack on arrows. I'll look into it. brb  :azn:

[zade_o]

Make animated Items and just made 4 bows and each bow uses one frame of the animated arrow. That should work.

[Irhymer]

how would that work…? :huh:

[zade_o]

I've had it before. Basically you just make a new item variable that determines whether or not the item is animated.

Then, you put a new option on the ItemEditor window that toggles the animated option.

Then in the sections where you Blt the player/playertop you wanna check for each piece of armor and if it's animated advance a variable by one and add that variable to the item that you paperdoll.

I can't really explain any better without giving the code which I don't want to do.

But that would work because the arrow would change as well as long as each of the copies of the bow weapon have a different frame of the animated arrow.

[Jaiden]

Ehmm Well, I'm not much of a coder. Could someone look into this for me? I can only add code, I can't really write it. ^.^;

[anasky]

Well, you should xD
Need a tutorial?
PM me, and I'll give you some good ones.

[DrNova]

finde the waling animation, a bit of comman sense/intelegence should enable you to see where ans how it adds axtre frames

[Alpha]

@DrNova:

> finde the waling animation, a bit of comman sense/intelegence should enable you to see where ans how it adds axtre frames

Were you on a cell phone, or something else?

Jaiden, if you get a tutorial PM it to me and I'll add it.

-Alpha

[The Oracle]

@DrNova:

> finde the waling animation, a bit of comman sense/intelegence should enable you to see where ans how it adds axtre frames

on drugs/drinking again. Not cell phone. xD

[Alpha]

That's the "something else". XD
-
Alpha

[Jaiden]

Yeah Alpha could you look into this for me? If I edit the source I'll mess something up x_x whether it's common sense or not.

[anasky]

Have more confidence, and you'll even the biggest noob in coding can accomplish something almost no-one has ever done.

(Took me as an example) I actually made, as my first code-change, a pokemon battle system.
Of course, it wasn't really good, but it was useable (if people wouldn't use Cheat Engine etc).

After 6-7 months, I became better and can now make even more things.

–> Don't give up, fate (and time) is all you need.

[Jaiden]

@[VB:

> anasky link=topic=40920.msg409304#msg409304 date=1238268804]
> Have more confidence, and you'll even the biggest noob in coding can accomplish something almost no-one has ever done.
>
> (Took me as an example) I actually made, as my first code-change, a pokemon battle system.
> Of course, it wasn't really good, but it was useable (if people wouldn't use Cheat Engine etc).
>
> After 6-7 months, I became better and can now make even more things.
>
> –> Don't give up, fate (and time) is all you need.

Thanks for the reassuring. I'm sure with the time I could do it, but I think someone like Alpha who's a very good programmer might have a better chance. I'm stronger in mapping and design than programming, it's just who I am. I've added small stuff on my own, but I'm not ready for full-blown edits like that yet :P.