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Does something say which frames of animation are for which animation?

A topic by idbrii created Feb 20, 2022 Views: 124 Replies: 3

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idbriiSubmitted2 years ago

Looking at the Capt Neato sprites from here, there’s run, jump, flip (?), climb, dance, fall (?) animations in rows 5-6.

I’m not entirely sure if I have those anims right or which ones go with which animation. I’ve never used pico8 and I’m using love2d for the jam. I tried opening tbj3.p8 in a text editor and pico-8, but I don’t see anything in there. Seems like it’s a bitfield for gfx, but I don’t see how I’d explore that in pico-8.

I guess I’ll just put together some frames and see what works, but is there are right way to do this?

Colin EUMPSubmitted2 years ago

If it helps at all, the startcart 2 folder has a sprite sheet with a knight in the same poses. Beyond that, I think only the small versions have any indication of what they're for, and that's in the form of the ninjoe animations in startcart 1.

My guess based on the general feel of all the animations is this. Starting from 1 as the left most in row 5 and going left to right, it looks like 1-2 is idle animation, 3-6 is running,7 is jump, 8 is fall, 9-11 is somehow blocking (makes more sense with a shield), 12 is climbing a ladder (meant to be flipped back and forth), 13-15 is throwing the shield in celebration, and 16 is sliding down a wall

idbriiSubmitted2 years ago (2 edits)

Thanks! That mostly matches what I have except for jump. The frames I was using in format {column range, row}:

{
win  = { '5-7', 6, },
jump = { '4-6', 5, }, -- not looping
fall = { 7,     5, },
land = { 8,     5, },
run  = { '3-6', 5, },
idle = { '1-2', 5, },
}

(In love2d, I use anim8 and these are the values I pass to it.)

I think you’re right about climbing, but I don’t have ladders so I didn’t try that one.

I guess the sliding one is meant for you to rotate it to match your slope.

The blocking is the one that confused me the most, but I guess it makes more sense as a reskin of the knight.

ThatTomHallHost2 years ago

I can have the artist detail the sprite, but I am zonked for the night -- will try to respond in morn, but Colin's basically got it right.

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TOY BOX JAM 3

Does something say which frames of animation are for which animation?