how do i really animate sometin...??

[slicer4ever]

k i wanna animate something not self but have it move around on its own now i am using lua and there torturial is really confusing and i want it to be text or pic help would be appreciated

p.s. i figured out my problem and just use infranview to create my picture and i resized it for the psp!!

yea

[Twenty 2]

Its hard to animate in lua because u have to just keep blitting images to the screen I wish they would have video/ animation support :icon_wink

[yungb]

Originally Posted by Twenty 2

Its hard to animate in lua because u have to just keep blitting images to the screen I wish they would have video/ animation support :icon_wink

I don't know how Lua works, but couldn't you just write a function to achieve the animation of an image?

Doesn't seem that hard to me, even while blitting.

[Twenty 2]

Still have to blit a bunch of images though...

[slicer4ever]

k thanks

[XteticX]

No need for multiple images. Why not just blit the image once, and change its value? Make the animation as a function, and have a timer, that way you can specify when where and what you want the image to do. Example:

sad=Image.load("sad.png")
happy=Image.load("happy.png")
neutral=Image.load("neutral.png")

picture=neutral
timer=0

function animation()
timer=timer+1
   if timer>=2 and timer<=4 then picture=happy
   elseif timer>=5 and timer<=7 then picture=sad end
   if timer>=8 then timer=0 picture=neutral end
end

while true do
   if pad:cross() then animation() end
   screen:blit(300,100,picture,true)
   screen.waitVblankStart()
   screen.flip()
end

I did this rather quick, but you should get the idea. Blit is only called once and refreshed in the loop. Cleen , simple. Good luck on your program.

[Twenty 2]

Originally Posted by XteticX

No need for multiple images. Why not just blit the image once, and change its value? Make the animation as a function, and have a timer, that way you can specify when where and what you want the image to do. Example:

sad=Image.load("sad.png")
happy=Image.load("happy.png")
neutral=Image.load("neutral.png")

picture=neutral
timer=0

function animation()
timer=timer+1
   if timer>=2 and timer<=4 then picture=happy
   elseif timer>=5 and timer<=7 then picture=sad end
   if timer>=8 then timer=0 picture=neutral end
end

while true do
   if pad:cross() then animation() end
   screen:blit(300,100,picture,true)
end

I did this rather quick, but you should get the idea. Blit is only called once and refreshed in the loop. Cleen , simple. Good luck on your program.

O i thought he ment like literaly move across the screen...

[XteticX]

Originally Posted by Twenty 2

O i thought he ment like literaly move across the screen...

Hehe. I read fast so I might of misunderstood. But hey , he can do that too.

if timer>=2 and timer<=4 then

... then what ever you please.

[Sir Crx]

If you animate by blitting will it look choppy? Is there a way to avoid that if it does?

[Twenty 2]

Originally Posted by Sir Crx

If you animate by blitting will it look choppy? Is there a way to avoid that if it does?

Yeah read xteticx's posts :icon_wink

[Sir Crx]

No im talking about what you mean. By making something move across the screen. If I wanted to make it look nice, would it have that refresh/choppy look?

[sumpaintballer41]

FOr an example of a smooth transition, look no further than PSP air hockey...that menu is loaded using a series of images not a video...It uses 20 images for an approxiamte 3 sec 'video' all that happened was they shaded a picture of 'THIS GAME WAS SCRIPTED IN LUA" and made it darker each photo. Hope this helps