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by **Troodon** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 4:57 pm

Hi,
How can I make my actor look in the moving direction.
Of course, I've got a rotating animation, so all I need is to have the draw actor code. Thanks

by **DilloDude** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 9:31 pm

IF you are using angle, just put

Code: Select all: animpos = (angle / 360) * nframes;

to get a basic one. For a more efficient one, if you have 36 frames, you can use

Code: Select all: animpos = angle * .1;

For other numbers of frames you will have to adjust the .1

by **Troodon** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 10:12 pm

Thanks Dillodude! I will make it 36 frames, but do you know any good software to rotate an image without having troubles with the blackground? Is the paint.net for example good enough?

by **DilloDude** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 1:09 am

I don't know really. Most of the time when I do rotations I use a 3d model.

by **Sgt. Sparky** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 3:25 am

use animation shop 3

by **Troodon** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:58 pm

I'll try that, thanks!

by **Sgt. Sparky** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 1:22 pm

you are welcome

by **Troodon** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 9:39 pm

I made a very nice 360 frames animation with Animation Shop 3! It's pitty that my animation shop is trial and will finish in I think 20 days. Maybe I should make now lots of rotating sprites for my future's game projects.

by **Fuzzy** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 12:26 am

Gimp will work for that too, no expiry, and it has an animation add on, also free, but i havent tried it yet.

by **Troodon** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 12:38 am

One of my friends mentioned gimp but I didn't found the animation system from it. Maybe I just haven't got the addon or something.

by **Fuzzy** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 1:08 am

http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html

if you are using windows.. its at the bottom of that page.

by **Troodon** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:44 am

THANKS!

by **Joshua Worth** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:37 am

tekdino wrote:One of my friends mentioned gimp but I didn't found the animation system from it. Maybe I just haven't got the addon or something.

If you are making a gif animation, just use the layers dialog, and add a layer for each frame.

by **Joshua Worth** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:38 am

DilloDude wrote:I don't know really. Most of the time when I do rotations I use a 3d model.

Same here!

by **Troodon** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:41 am

I am also using a 3d model in one of my current game projects, but sometimes I need a smooth rotation of 360 frames.

This is one 3d model I made for Orbiter and for one of my game projects:

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Looking in the move direction

Looking in the move direction

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