[Dev1462]

Can i get a decent tutorial that kind of breaks down the whole process of animating a sprite, along with source code? Ive been going through quite a few tutorials and every since one is just not good and overly confusing

[Kilorn]

I'm really surprised that there isn't already a tutorial on how to do this on this site. I'm at work right now, so there's no way I can get it done now, but when I get home tonight I'll throw together a tutorial for you on how to do this. It's actually really simple once it's broken down. Is there anything specific that you're having trouble understanding right now that I might be able to help you out with for now?

EDIT: I found a couple posts from Hellbroth about 2d animation.

http://www.dreaminco...cter-animation/

http://www.dreaminco...-on-xna-part-1/

Hopefully these can help you, but if not, I'll still see if I have time tonight to write up a quick tutorial for it.

This post has been edited by Kilorn: 13 October 2010 - 06:54 AM

[Dev1462]

a quick basic animation tutorial would be so nice. Its just that they all seem to have such radical approaches to doing it and some are just over the top unecessary and others are customized/Hardcoded to their sprite and it makes it hard on me

[Shane Hudson]

Hmm well simple things would be like this psuedocode:

If right arrow key then use sprite - right
If left arrow key then use sprite - left
If fighting then use sprite - fighting

Obviously there are many ways to improve it. I am currently working on one right now actually so may post a tutorial once it is finished.

[Dev1462]

Shane Hudson, on 13 October 2010 - 01:03 PM, said:

Hmm well simple things would be like this psuedocode:

If right arrow key then use sprite - right
If left arrow key then use sprite - left
If fighting then use sprite - fighting

Obviously there are many ways to improve it. I am currently working on one right now actually so may post a tutorial once it is finished.

Well, i can do that...thats childs play, but im looking for a way to use multiple sprites string together to make it seem like the sprite is moving. turns out that there are a lot of factors and some things that are a bit over my head. No only that but the people who write the tutorials add a lot more stuff that make it hella confusing

[Kilorn]

Alright, I wrote the tutorial and submitted it here, so hopefully we'll hear something about it soon and I'll link you to it asap.

[Dev1462]

Ok sweet, now we just need a separate section for XNA tutorials xD thanks a bunch man! i hope they put it up ASAP

[Kilorn]

Yea, hopefully it'll be approved today.

[Dev1462]

Sigh, i feel like it wont be today can you link it to me in anyway besides on here. maybe i can get an early version?

[Kilorn]

Well, I wrote it up in Word, and there are html tags all over the place, so even if I did e-mail it to you, it would be a mess trying to make sense of it with all those tags.

EDIT: Here's hoping for approval tomorrow, or tonight before I go to bed.

This post has been edited by Kilorn: 14 October 2010 - 06:01 PM

[Kilorn]

EDIT: Nevermind.

This post has been edited by Kilorn: 15 October 2010 - 10:12 AM

[bonyjoe]

load in your sprite sheet
make a source rectangle that is (0 , 0, single sprite width, single sprite height)
make

const int rows = amount of sprites per column on the sprite sheet
const int columns = amount of sprites per row
const int frames = rows*columns
int currentFrame = -1

determine which sprite to display by changing the source rectangle

            currentFrame++;
            currentFrame %=frames;
            rect.X = (currentFrame % columns) * rect.Width;
            rect.Y = (currentFrame / columns) * rect.Height;

then in the draw code make sure you use the source rectangle to only draw the single sprite and not the whole sheet

[arrezes]

bonyjoe, on 15 October 2010 - 10:23 AM, said:

load in your sprite sheet
make a source rectangle that is (0 , 0, single sprite width, single sprite height)
make

const int rows = amount of sprites per column on the sprite sheet
const int columns = amount of sprites per row
const int frames = rows*columns
int currentFrame = -1

determine which sprite to display by changing the source rectangle

            currentFrame++;
            currentFrame %=frames;
            rect.X = (currentFrame % columns) * rect.Width;
            rect.Y = (currentFrame / columns) * rect.Height;

then in the draw code make sure you use the source rectangle to only draw the single sprite and not the whole sheet

if you're into VC# 2008 and XNA i have a good tutorial myself

[Kilorn]

I still haven't heard anything about the tutorial I wrote and submitted, but I did go ahead and send it to . I'd really like to hear something back from the people in charge of the tutorials soon, though. It's been almost a week and still not a single word.

This post has been edited by Kilorn: 19 October 2010 - 08:43 PM

[Kilorn]

I logged in today to find that my tutorial had been approved, so I wanted to update this thread and let you know that it's up there now.

http://www.dreaminco...nimated-sprite/