I need some advice on an image tansformation issue

[zorksox]

I want a bird to circle over the player.  I could do this with the Move Route command but it won't look so good.  So I create four 500x39 images.  Each one is a frame in the animation.  Here they are below:

(when they come up, press ctrl+A to see what I mean)
http://www.mts.net/~zorksox/bird1.PNG
http://www.mts.net/~zorksox/bird2.PNG
http://www.mts.net/~zorksox/bird3.PNG
http://www.mts.net/~zorksox/bird4.PNG

I can make the first image rotate in the middle of the screen.  This looks very good, but it's not animated.  I created an event to cycle through the frames, but that removes the rotation.  Does anyone have a clever solution to this problem?  Or perhaps a totally different way of approaching the issue?

 

[Grathea]

Try making an animation, then setting it to the player.

 

[regi]

You can rotate them manually in an image-editing program, and save those as separate images. Or another way is to make the whole thing a charset, and use "Set Move Route: Change Graphic" to get each sprite to change.

 

[Stardust]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v437/Metora/bird.png[/img]

There's the character set.  I hope you like it. :thumb:

~Guardian1239

 

[zorksox]

OK, I managed to create a sequence images for the animation.  I put them all into a animated gif.
http://www.mts.net/~zorksox/bird_final2.gif

THAT is what I want it to look like.  The only problem is the animation is 188 frames long. There are a few ways to do it, but it will take me a long time :dead:.If only RPG Maker XP supported animated GIFs.

 

[regi]

What I would do is create a charset for regular movement (use Guardian's image), and a charset for diagonal movement. Then check "Stop Animation", and use "Set Move Route" to get it to move around in a circle. When you want it to change to a diagonal graphic, just use the "Change Graphic" function.