Help In Animating a fireball

Pixelicious

Hello Everyone,

I am currently building my first game, and their is a scene i am designing which contains lava. I trying to animate a fireball image that i drew. So far i have enabled it to put a timer that after 4 seconds it would move to a position at a speed. But i don't know how to get it to loop. Can anyone help me please?

PeeCee

assuming you haven't seen the animate behavour then

the actor that moves into position should be the actor that also has the ANIMATE behaviour inside of it with your fireball images .so lets say this actor that moves to a position is called "FIREBALL". now inside of the fireball actor , you put the animate behaviour and all images that animate that fire or lava effect play in sequence and with the same animate behaviour you can set loop.

hope this helps.

Pixelicious

Thanks for the advice PeeCee. However what I am trying to do is not animate using frames for that animate function but just to use one still image to, go up and then come down. Then loop that same effect.

So in this scene I have a pool of lava on the bottom. What I want to do is have the fireball at a start position then to move straight up to the top of the screen and rotate and come down, then loop that same movement after a few seconds. Just like the mario bros underground levels with the fireballs. If you hit it you die.

Any more suggestions please?

RThurman

Depending on how you have things set up -- you might try changing the timer from 'after' 4 seconds to 'every' 4 seconds.

Pixelicious

Tried that, didn't work. Here is an image describing what i what to do.

[IMG]http://i54.tinypic.com/2yool1f.jpg[/IMG]

Pixelicious

Pixelicious said:
Tried that, didn't work. Here is an image describing what i what to do.

http://i54.tinypic.com/2yool1f.jpg

RThurman

OK -- place the following two timers and two behaviors into the fireball actor:

Timer -- Every: 8 seconds
----Interpolate Attribute: self.Position.Y, To: 300, Duration: 4, Function: Ease out
----Timer -- After: 4 seconds, run to completion
--------Interpolate Attribute: self.Position.Y, To: 0, Duration: 4, Function: Ease in

Notice that the second timer is contained inside the first timer. (And that the second interpolate is contained inside the second timer.)

Also be sure to 'check run to completion' on the second timer.

That should get you on the right track.

Pixelicious

Thank you so much works like a charm

RThurman

Pixelicious said:
Thank you so much works like a charm

Hey, No Problem. Glad it works.

I still just amazed at how much time/effort/coding is saved with two simple things like a timer container and an interpolate behavior!