How Can i Make my guy 'look' like he's running

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How Can i Make my guy 'look' like he's running

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Started 3 years ago by Jimbo
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Thefox
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Alright, does anyone understand that? Heh.

Wow, that's some cool stuff. To answer your question...not really, and how do you pull off 60fps?!!! that's insanity!
Yeah i would like to know how to animate that smoothly, i'll try to see if i can make any more sense out of it.
I guess the one thing i don't understand is how the swap/duplicate button would help you make sure that your MC's width height etc... is the same. I've tried to animate running before but it ended up with the character moving up and down ever so slightly.

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DrNeroCF
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Would some sort of walk animation tutorial help?

Right, if I was missing an extra ), those would be typos.

Maybe I should just end up building a simple platformer step by step..

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Posted 3 years ago #
Thefox
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yeah i stink at animation, so a tutorial would be cool.

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Jimbo
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I can do an anamation using the keyframes but then i got no clue. But yeah anamation tut would be cool.

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DrNeroCF
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Just for clarification, FPA doesn't run at 60 fps, on my computer if can get up to maybe around 50, but it's throttled down to 30. Flash doesn't know how to make a game run at 30 fps in the browser, so you have to set it much higher, then manually retime it (run a while loop until so many milliseconds have passed). IndestructoTank A.E. uses this technique, and feels far more fluid than the first one (and looks much more awesome, I might add).

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Brian Sexton
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I like for things to be code-driven and modular, so I like the idea of swapping different MovieClips in and out to change animations. Storing them on different frames of a container MovieClip is OK if you would prefer to change frames rather than swapping. Either way, I prefer to keep as little code as possible on frames; I find that it is easier to find and edit code when it is kept in separate files, whether they are class files or simple include files.

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Jimbo
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SO how do you actualy do it?

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Jimbo
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hey i think i got it...

i'm just rubbish at anamation

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Jimbo
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do i need to add stop(); to each section of my guy (idle-run-jump)?

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Jimbo
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nope stuck again

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DrNeroCF
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do i need to add stop(); to each section of my guy (idle-run-jump)?

Nope, the gotoAndStop takes care of that for you. Generally, you may need to put stop() on the first frame of a clip, then only use gotoAndStops so you don't need to use stop() on any of the other frames.

Brian, I can understand why some people would want that amount of control, but I'm more of a, use the easiest method that's already built into the system kinda guy. That's probably why I use only macs, haha.

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Jimbo
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but my guy just plays through all his frames..add stop to idle?

then do what ever the code is for when right is down gotoandplay run
then addstop to the end of the running frames so he doesn't go off and play his jump?

that is confusing to read...

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Brian Sexton
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Brian, I can understand why some people would want that amount of control, but I'm more of a, use the easiest method that's already built into the system kinda guy.

Whatever works for you. To me, ActionScript source code seems easier to find, search, edit, etc. when I don't have to go searching for it on symbol timeline frames and on instances.

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Mistercheef
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people say actionscript sucks though?

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Jimbo
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maybe it does!

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Brian Sexton
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people say actionscript sucks though?

People say pretty much everything sucks; it depends upon your perspective. Like almost anything, ActionScript could certainly be much better, but it does enable us to create some pretty decent games and other multi-platform applications.

I am quite fond of ActionScript 3.

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Jimbo
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I think action scripts are good because they are easy to use. If you can coder in C++ you really don't need AS...anyone heard of LUA?

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Jimbo
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Oh, and can we go back to the running...i'm still stuck...

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Mistercheef
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Jimbo, congrats for the first quadruple post on this forum! (i dont consider it a bad thing either)

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Jimbo
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errrm, thanks?

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