Help with AttackIndicator, not cycling???
 

Okay I'm making a UI obviously and I've made a small 3 frame animation to use as the AttackIndicator



Now, it will go through all three frames once. Then it will stick on the last frame. It does flash red, as I was hoping for.

Here is my code...

<Ui2DAnimation item = "A_AttackIndicator">
<Cycle>true</Cycle>
<Frames>
<Texture>AttackIndicator.tga</Texture>
<Location>
<X>0</X>
<Y>0</Y>
</Location>
<Size>
<CX>66</CX>
<CY>53</CY>
</Size>
<Duration>200</Duration>
</Frames>
<Frames>
<Texture>AttackIndicator.tga</Texture>
<Location>
<X>67</X>
<Y>0</Y>
</Location>
<Size>
<CX>66</CX>
<CY>53</CY>
</Size>
<Duration>200</Duration>
</Frames>
<Frames>
<Texture>AttackIndicator.tga</Texture>
<Location>
<X>132</X>
<Y>0</Y>
</Location>
<Size>
<CX>66</CX>
<CY>53</CY>
</Size>
<Duration>200</Duration>
</Frames>
</Ui2DAnimation>

That is in my EQUI_Animations (i know it doesn't have to go there, but I wanted it to)

also here is my playerwindow

<StaticAnimation item = "A_AttackIndicatorAnim">
<ScreenID>A_AttackIndicatorAnim</ScreenID>
<Animation>A_AttackIndicator</Animation>
</StaticAnimation>

If I try and set location or anything for it, it will put the last frame static, but when I turn attack on it will always start at x0,y0

Any ideas????

You will have to make the image an animated image using frames at the graphic level. Dont try using the frames in the .xml to do it. Since you have the 3 frames that you want, go to whatever paint program you use for either animations or web images, you should be able to merge your frames into a single image.

Don't think this is possible as I need Alpha channel for each frame?

Depending on your program, its not hard to make a transparent .tga. Post a zip of your 3 frames you want animated and ill give it a shot.

Animation.zip

I included a readme for it for what I wanted done, if you have any questions I'm on MSN and AIM

MSN - [email protected]
AIM - JadePluto

Thank you so much!

I couldn't do it as a .tga. The program i edit .tga's in is somewhat archaic when it comes to advanced manipulations such as frames and animations. Here is your compilation in transparent .gif format however.

That's how far I had gotten, but will not show up.

Guess I'm going to have to just use a static image...oh well :(

Thank you for all the help!

try defining the image as a .gif as one of the animations. I heard a rumor once that you could use .gif and .png as well as .tga as graphics.