Animated Interpics

[Project Shadowcat]

... he'll probably not like it even after all my hard work on it.

I'll find that he's surprisingly easy to please.

[Skunk]

Dude I got like totally bored and animated parts of E4... the burning house flickers and the demonic volcano thing lets off smoke and a red glow at the bottom and the skull lights up when you enter E4M8.

[Impboy4]

It's excellent Skunk, but there are some bugs in it though:

- When you enter the interpic, the buring house animation gets squished a little
- The smoke from that hellish volcano thing clips into the sky and also distorts it

Thats all I found, otherwise great job!

[Xaser]

... he'll probably not like it even after all my hard work on it.

I'll find that he's surprisingly easy to please.

Was that a half-insult directed half at me, half at Skunk? If so, then go half-jump off a cliff!

Otherwise, uh... yeah, his new interpic rocks pretty good actually.

[HotWax]

... he'll probably not like it even after all my hard work on it.

I'll find that he's surprisingly easy to please.

Was that a half-insult directed half at me, half at Skunk? If so, then go half-jump off a cliff!

Otherwise, uh... yeah, his new interpic rocks pretty good actually.

The way I read it, he was just reassuring Skunk that you wouldn't turn up your nose at his work...

[Project Shadowcat]

While it was what HotWax read it as, this is why I love your sense of humor Xaser.

[Blzut3]

Anyway, amended the wiki, animations and pics have an offset of dead center and four pixels from the bottom

Uhh, I thought it was the offsets in the image were applied first? For example, if you were to open you're wad with XWE you will notice that all the images have an offset exactly how you describe. So if you set all the images to have an offset of 0, 0 then the coordinates would reference the top left hand corner of the image. I believe SBarInfo also works this way.

[Project Shadowcat]

I believe SBarInfo also works this way.

Correct. Fonts however you have to start from the top right, but that's another topic.

[Skunk]

Oh really? I didn't know that. I'll go re edit the wiki then and remove that little comment.

[Skunk]

Okay, quick question for anyone who knows about the interpic scripting... I wanna begin an animation and then start it looping at a different point... like I want the animation to do this...

Frame 1
Frame 2
Frame 3 <--- Loop point
Frame 4
Frame 5
Frame 6
Frame 3 <--- Begin Loop
Frame 4
Frame 5
Frame 6
Etc

Is this possible?

[Xaser]

Hmm... as far as I can tell, it's not possible, but that's not a bad feature request, really.

Though, if you just copy+paste those frames a bunch of times and have them in an IFENTERING type, you can make the animation long enough so the game advances anyhow and you don't have to worry about the loop anyway (I fixed it for the E5 map this way... it works!).

[Skunk]

I did that for your E5 map but I couldn't get it to work right, you made it look really awesome.

[Gez]

Hey, did you make any update to the E4 interpic?