How to make looping animations on the map?

[dootthaloop]

Hi, I'm VERY new at this. I'm using RPG Maker VX. I was wondering if it were possible to make looping animations on the map, larger ones than the regular character graphics? And preferably without doing scripts, because I don't know anything about that. If the only way is to do scripts, however, please explain carefully^^; I do understand there is an animations option, under the database. I have allready tried playing around with this, I even made the animation I want to go on my map 'a block of 192x192 cells' as specified in help, and I tried placing this on my map as a new event, but the farthest I can get is a mutilated version of the animation that only appears for a split second when the character moves onto the event area. So I need help, please!

 

[regi]

Hmm, how 'bout trying a Parallel Processing event that shows the animation, waits however many frames the animation lasts, and then replays the animation? That should get it to loop manually.

 

[dootthaloop]

That worked, thanks! But now the animation goes extremely fast, how would I slow it down?

 

[Mikee]

Hmm... I'd say that you probably changed the frames the animation lasts for, and not the wait time between animations. Make sure that your parallel process wait time is the right frame length, then check to make sure that your animation frame length is on it's default length, which is probably 20 frames.  Also... I didn't test this solution out... so it's possible that you can't even change the animation frame length. XD  Good luck!

 

[regi]

If your animation is custom-made and not RTP, you'll have to add more frames in between in the animation.