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Animation Configuration

Make your way towards the plugin tab (labeled either Action RPG, Jump Action or Shooter) and select the Animations tab.

For those of you that went with option #2 above the following will be a repeat. Just skip down to the "Just to add a little more..." part.

On the right-hand side click Create to add a new animation set, then on the far right side select the Per Action Settings tab and under Graphic Data click the arrow on the drop down box to select the image you added earlier.

Just to go into a little more detail when you add a new animation set it creates 1 action, the display directions and an In-direction frame list. Each additional action setting you add create the same display directions and single frame per display direction.

As you've noticed in the Selected Animation section our Action, Display Direction and In Direction Frame List all show a miniature version of the image were using for that action. Obviously we don't want the entire image being used just certain parts so lets fix that.

Click the Per Action Settings tab, we need to change the numbers for Split Graphic (Horizontal) and Split Graphic (Vertical) under image settings. This will change the gird lines which are used to create image sections in the image were using.

Every time you increase Split Graphic (Vertical) it will split the image vertically into X equal pieces. So If I were to increase the Split Graphic (Vertical) to 3 the image would be split vertically into 3 equal pieces.

Every time you increase Split Graphic (Horizontal) it will split the image horizontally into X equal pieces. So If I were to increase the Split Graphic (Horizontal) to 3 the image would be split horizontally into 3 equal pieces.

Here's a little trick I figured out to set the gird lines up perfectly. For Height you count how many vertical poses there are in on section. Using my example, the 8Bit Bomberman character set there are 8 poses going vertically, however the text at the bottom counts even though its not a pose so there's 9. For Width you count how many horizontal poses there are in on section. Using my example, the 8Bit Bomberman character set there are 9 poses going horizontally. This trick works almost every time. (Editors note: The image supplied in this tutorial is not the same as the one supplied in the original tutorial, but the same logic does apply.)

Alright! So far we've manged to import our animation, set up an animation set, and set the gird lines up for each pose! Before I start explaining how to add poses I want to explain the rest of the Animation tab's settings. It's going to just be a quick list, nothing fancy.

Starting in the middle.



Bottom Left Side In Middle Section



Right side.

Per Frame Settings Tab

Basic Data



Display Settings



Collision Detection

Collision Detection with other Gadgets



Collision Detection with Walls (Tiles)



Collision Detection for Attacks



Graphic


Per Action Settings Tab

Basic Display Parameters



Animation Settings



Graphic Data

Graphic - Either select the image for the drop down list or import a new one.
Split Graphic (Vertical) - Vertical gird spacing.
Split Graphic (Horizontal) - Horizontal grid spacing.
Split to Same Pixel Width and Height - Make Width And Height Equal

Moving on!