New Portraits/Small Pics!

[SilentThief]

Yeah, and AFAICT the animations would go thru one time during, an event and not loop like they do in FRUA. Unless you had a bunch of repeating frames, you would have only a quick action and then -stop-

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ps, but again, I haven't tried this out to see.

[Uatu]

Hmm - by the way, do animated small pics cycle through the animations or are they just one-shot?

Also, new al-mi'raj small pic is up. (I like to put stupid-looking cuddly creatures against low-level PCs... ha!)

[manikus]

Here's the poop on animating in DC.
You cannot animate PC pictures.
You can animate other small pics/portraits. It is the designer's option where the animate plays through once or loops. The designer also controls how fast it plays and which frame to start with.

[manikus]

Originally Posted by Uatu Also, new al-mi'raj small pic is up. (I like to put stupid-looking cuddly creatures against low-level PCs... ha!)

It is indeed very cuddly looking.
I can see it now...
"Oh look! It's a cute unicorn-bunny. Come here bunny-wunny..."
THWAPT, THWAPT, SLASH!
"Oh my god! So much blood..gurgle..."

[Uatu]

Can the designer control how long each frame is displayed? (Say, 5 seconds for the normal frame, and 0.1 second for each eye blinking frame)

But yeah, you never know what the cuddly al-mi'raj will do... (Not evil, but stupid)

[manikus]

I just checked, and looks like you have to have the same amount of spacing between all frames. I guess that is my cue to mention the feature tracker at SourceForge...that or you could do like 50 frames that were the same, then the blink sequence.

[Uatu]

Yeah... That's what I remember... That should be fairly easy to fix, right? If it does get fixed, then I can start animatin'

50 frames is doable... but we result in huge files

[manikus]

I don't know if it's easy to fix, b/c I don't think it's broken. I don't think CocoaSpud ever foresaw that we would want to have varying lengths of time between frames., hence why this is a feature request and not a bug.

[Uatu]

But - in the old Gold Box games, it was quite clear that certain frames were much longer than the other frames (i.e. the blinking sequences or the tongue-flicking sequences)...

[manikus]

But, in the Goldbox games, they just added frames to make part of it look longer. I've taken apart all of the .tlb files. One of the first utils for FRUA that I learned how to use was the TLB extractor maker, so I could get at the default graphics in a paint program.