Animated Background

[buprettyinpink]

I found this video on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTg7Yy5vB3A

I love the animated background, I don't necessarily need someone to make me one, i'm part of a project with several artists on it (although if you might like to join you can pm me  :smile: ) I just want to know if it uses a different script of if it's just the background used for the battle... I guess what i'm asking is how to make it, not really if someone can  :smile:

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[Devon Jacobs]

Hm it can be done, I am working on one right now. You will probably need a good anti lag script to settle it all together though.

 

[buprettyinpink]

ok, i was looking through the guy who posted it's youtube videos and he said in one of them that its a combination of "Moghunter's animated background" and "Cybersam's animated battler".... i'm not familiar with either of those but someone else may be, i tried to find the Moghunter's animated background from google but i'm not coming up with anything, anyone know where it is?

 

[Devon Jacobs]

I don't remember it being here but I will search again.

 

[Grathea]

I think Seph had something like this in one of his testbeds.

 

[FoxtrotZulu]

Animated Battle Background by 'RPG'

This script enables you to have animated battle backgrounds with the use of multiple frames.

Your animated battleback files should always end with two numbers, first is the total number of frames (ranging from 0 to 9) and the second is the current frame for this battleback (starting from 0 to total number - 1), so if you had 3 frames for some forest back you'd name the files:

forest30
forest31
forest32

That's all, the script will check the second number from the end of the string (total frames), if it's a number in range of 0 to 9 it'll update the battleback, change the number 20 in @delay = 20 to change the animation speed.

Add the following variables after @timer_sprite = Sprite_Timer.new in the initialize method of Spriteset_Battle (line 49):

@frame = 0
@frame_num = 1
@delay = 20
@old_fc = Graphics.frame_count

In the update method, under @battleback_name = $game_temp.battleback_name add:

frame_num = @battleback_name[@battleback_name.size-2].chr
@frame_num = (0..9).include?(@frame_num.to_i) ? @frame_num.to_i : 1

Finally, add the following if statement to the end of the update method (after @viewport4.update)

if @frame_num > 1 and Graphics.frame_count - @old_fc > @delay
@frame += 1
@frame %= @frame_num
@battleback_name[@battleback_name.size - 1] = @frame.to_s
@battleback_sprite.bitmap = RPG::Cache.battleback(@battleback_name)
@old_fc = Graphics.frame_count
end

 

[iceplosion]

Yep, there's an animated background script (although I think it only uses four frames) in Sephirothspawns testbed.