Help with Animations and walking sprites

[accorsif]

In the midst of making some battle animations like explosions and the like, i found a problem that i dont know how to solve. Maybe the answer is obvious, but here it goes. I need to make magic circles around my characters when they cast (i am using a side scrolling battle system), but i dont know how to put animations under my character sprites. Is there a script involved in this that i could use or is the answer even simpler?

My second question has to do with the walking sprite. When you use the regular walking setup, and you push a direction it cycles through the postures in the animation and when you release the direction it goes back to the "still" pose. What i want to make my character do is to have that "stand still frame" active, and when you press a direction it cycles through a separate set of running frames, and when you stop it goes back to the "stand still Frame". My problem is that if i make just running drawings on the frames, when he stands still it looks ridiculous because hes leaning forwards frozen in the middle of a run. How would i fix this? is a changed up script needed?

thank you for your help.

 

[Third333strike]

for the running thing you could use one of those dash script/event systems so you have to press a button, and when it does that it switches to a different set of frames.

 

[accorsif]

Thanks for the help with the walking problem, but do you know how to help me put animations below the character? (ex: Magic circle)

 

[SephirothSpawn]

Try this:

class RPG::Animation
  Lower_Animations = []
  def is_lower_animation?
    return Lower_Animations.include?(@id)
  end
end

class RPG::Sprite
  alias_method :seph_loweranimationz_rpgspr_anim,  :animation
  alias_method :seph_loweranimationz_rpgspr_lanim, :loop_animation
  def animation(animation, hit)
    seph_loweranimationz_rpgspr_anim(animation, hit)
    if animation.is_lower_animation? && @_animation_sprites != nil
      @_animation_sprites.each {|s| s.z -= 1}
    end
  end
  def loop_animation(animation)
    seph_loweranimationz_rpgspr_lanim(animation)
    if animation.is_lower_animation? && @_loop_animation_sprites != nil
      @_loop_animation_sprites.each {|s| s.z -= 1}
    end
  end
end

Just fill this Lower_Animations = [] with your animations that will be below your main sprite. So if your Magic Circle animation is id 5, have Lower_Animations = [5]. If you want to add like animation 7, you would have Lower_Animations = [5, 7]

 

[accorsif]

um.. first of all would i put his script under a new script tab, and if so, when i do and i enter a battle (having set an animation id in the brackets) it sais "NoMehodError occurred. Undefined Method 'Is_lower_animation?' for nil:NilClass." What does this mean and what did i do wrong?

By the way thanks for putting in the time to help. (also i noticed that this means that the animation will either be above or below, is there a way to have both in the same animation or is that too much)

 

[Gubid]

Above main, but below your others scripts will work.

 

[Anonymous]

http://hesperides.xooit.com/t61-Script-Des-animations-qui-respectent-les-priorites.htm

This script will make sure any of your animation will fit the priorities
Magic behind a tree or in front of it would be managed according to priorities and the position on your animation

 

[accorsif]

Thanks a lot for the help. How would i use this last script (Roys) because i barely inderstand a thing on that site.

 

[Anonymous]

Yep, sorry it is in French, which is actually pity because you have loads of useful new event command (find path, in contact with, in range, picture etc etc)
Well actually it is very simple, you just need to copy paste the script linked (above main as usual) and it would work as described above