Castle Paradox

bis_senchi · Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 460 Location: Reims, France

I would implement a weather effect : rain.

I was thinking about using layer. I've draw rain in my titlesets and even managed to place it on map. Now there's a zone with rain on it.

I've placed using map layer nb2 and when my hero walk on the zone we still can see him. The rain appear before him.

To embetter the effect I need to make rain animation. How could I do that?

All your pieces of advice are welcomed!
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TwinHamster · Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 5:38 am Post subject:

You can animate tiles regardless of what layer they're on.

bis_senchi · Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 460 Location: Reims, France

Yes that's a great idea! How can I animate tiles regardless of what layer they're on?

Do you have to use plotscrpting? What should I put in the layers?

Thanks in advance for your help!
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TwinHamster · Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 4:58 am Post subject:

No plotscripting.
Just regular 'Define Tile Animation' will do.

Once you set up a pattern for the tileset that your rain-tiles are on, go to the map editor and the layer which the rain is all placed on (You can press Ctrl+F to fill the screen with a tile) and then press [ctrl+x], where 'x' is the corresponding animation number (first being 1 and etcetera).

[Ctrl+x] will animate every tile of the type your cursor is currently on and animate it with the pattern indicated.

bis_senchi · Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 460 Location: Reims, France

I've managed to implement the weather effect!

I also would like to start and stop the animation using a tag : it is not necessary that it rains all the time.

Could you please give me advice om how to do?

Thanks for your help!
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TMC · Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:00 pm Post subject:

Tile animations let you check tags in the middle of an animation, or disable the animation altogether depending on a tag.
For example, in Wandering Hamster all the banners in Broaste's castle change colour after you defeat him. This is done using a tile animation.

So you could disable the tile animation when a tag is set, start on a blank tile, and have an animation pattern that immediately moves from the blank tile to the first rain tile, without waiting, eg:

right 1
wait 2
right 1
...

If the animation is disabled, then it stays on the blank tile. If it's not disabled, then it immediately goes to the first rain tile without ever showing the blank tile.
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