Animating My Character

WMS_GS117

Help me PLS I'm making a game for school and I'm trying to animate my character but all the things I've seen haven't helped at all

Socks

What sort of advice are you after ?

jamie_c

Gamesalad animates using frame based animation so you'll need to create individual frames for animations. Not sure that's what you're after. If you have a more specific question ask away...

Gnarly

Need more details. What do you have?

WMS_GS117

The animate behavior is confusing me because i need to use it but the only thing I can do is modify the FPS, loop, and restore actor Image when done

WMS_GS117

is that good

jamie_c

@WMS_GS117, what kind of animation are you trying to achieve exactly?

tmann

@WMS_GS117 said:
The animate behavior is confusing me because i need to use it but the only thing I can do is modify the FPS, loop, and restore actor Image when done

That is all animate can do - it is just a frame/image player

SLOCM3Z

This animation math by @Socks allows a little more control over animation. We really don't understand what you want. http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/63454/fast-frame-swap/p1

Socks

@WMS_GS117 said:
The animate behavior is confusing me because i need to use it but the only thing I can do is modify the FPS, loop, and restore actor Image when done

You've still not told us what it is you are trying to do.

The_Gamesalad_Guru

An animation is a series of still images created in a graphics or animation program. So yes that is all the animate behavior does. You need to create the animated images and the behavior plays them back.

SLOCM3Z

You don't know how to add images? You don't know what the fps does? Do you not want the character to revert to it's former image? We need more details on what you want to do.

WMS_GS117

ok I know what FPS is and that sort of stuff but every time I try to drag an image into the animate behavior it just makes a change image behavior and does nothing to the animate behavior

WMS_GS117

but It might be the fact that I haven't gotten the new update

SLOCM3Z

Version shouldn't matter these days. To make an animate behavior you have to drag an animate behavior into the rule and then drag images into it by moving them into the white box in the animate behavior.

jamie_c

I have an old tutorial here that discusses graphics and animation if you want to check it out. It's old but should still be accurate.

tatiang

@WMS_GS117 said:
every time I try to drag an image into the animate behavior it just makes a change image behavior and does nothing to the animate behavior

If you're dragging an image into an actor's rule list and a Change Image behavior is being created then you aren't dragging it into the Animate behavior correctly. Try importing the image file into the Images Library first and then dragging the image from the Library to the Animate behavior.

BBEnk

Sounds like he's dragging in One image and trying to animate it.

WMS_GS117

ok but the thing is when I do that the it makes a change image behavior instead and IDK why it's doing that and nothing is happening to the animate behavior

WMS_GS117

If anyone can help pls do so I need this done by Monday

The_Gamesalad_Guru

Okay bring in the animate behavior. Then inside the open area of the behavior drag in your images.

tmann

or just drag in your images and the animate behavior is made for you

tatiang

At this point, there have been many suggestions and much help. If it's still not working, consider posting a link to a screen recording of what you're seeing. There may be something simple that you're doing wrong that none of us can see.

AlchimiaStudios

This is a frame by frame animation. Break it up into individual images and that's what you need for gamesalad.

This is the animate behaviour

Put the images in one by one in order by dragging them in to the animate behaviour.

You now have an animation!

Put it in rules to trigger the animation or set to loop an enjoy watching it animate over and over.