[LUA] sprite animation

[zeroxorxdiexskater]

WHEW! i finally ran into a problem with LUA. everything was easy and going good until NOW. yup sprite animation. i looked around and saw that sprite animation was very long and hard with LUA and animlib fixed that. so i downloaded that, got my spritesheet to load into the program but now i cant figure out how to get it to animate when i move. i looked at the animlib.lua file and everything and i cant figure out how to animate it like i want. it seems to only be for animation on its own with a delay on the animation or how many times it loops.

[Mr_Shizzy]

Thy this:

[zeroxorxdiexskater]

SWEET! this is what i need
thanks man
and ur avatar is boss!
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new problem
trying to use this line ANIM.newSpriteSheetAnim(f ile, nWidth, nHeight, delay, maxLoops)

and i set it up like this for a test
ANIM.newSpriteSheetAnim(i mages/player.png, 74, 93, 0, 0)


but whenever i use it it get an error

Error: SCRIPT.LUA:80: attempt to index global 'player' (a nil value)

not sure what to do, played with it a little but i got nothin

[Nielkie]

You need to put strings in quotation marks.

But please, stop coming here with every little tiny problem you encounter. Spend at least 5 minutes reading around and thinking about it. I'm starting to wish vBulletin had a "block user" function. EDIT: It does! Wonderous!

Or at least post such minuscule questions in the designated help threads so you don't clog up the forum like you are doing now (Every day for the last week you have at least 2 threads made by you with tiny questions on the first page of the forum).

[wicked_fable]

Geez, you are already using Animlib, you didn't even really learn how sprite animation works. You could have spent some time like Nielkie said figuring it out yourself. It took me a few days to figure out hot to animate a sprite by myself and it was a good learning experience. If you can figure out the solution to your problems by yourself you will be able to better understand exactly what is going on much more than you would by just asking and having someone tell you the answer.

[zeroxorxdiexskater]

Originally Posted by wicked_fable

Geez, you are already using Animlib, you didn't even really learn how sprite animation works. You could have spent some time like Nielkie said figuring it out yourself. It took me a few days to figure out hot to animate a sprite by myself and it was a good learning experience. If you can figure out the solution to your problems by yourself you will be able to better understand exactly what is going on much more than you would by just asking and having someone tell you the answer.

well i already know how sprite animation works in C and if animlib is designed to make sprite animation easier why not use it? and my problem was that i was reading the animlib.lua file and was typing it up and filing in the blanks and the file didnt have the quotes so i forgot about it