Castle Paradox

[mjkrzak]

'cause it never hurts to ask, right?

1. Blank attacker animation - I'm messing with a bit of a kludgy workaround to the fixed amount of combat sprite slots. I've noted that if you set the attacker animation to null, then do an attack on self that overlaps the null frame, you can fake having more character animations. Thing is, you have to overlap pretty exactly, and this limits how dynamic you can get. Were there a blank attacker animation that lasted as long as the attack itself, you essentially get 3 free animation frames to do whatever. I'd like that.

2. Beam Attack Animations - Want me some lasers! Or a flamethrower! Something like the wave attack, except one that starts at the character and extends to the target.

Whether you do it or not, it is fun playing with the OHRRPGCE. You'd think one of these years I'd come out with something... oh well.

[TMC]

An "invisible" or "hide" attacker animation seems reasonable enough.

Beam attack animations is a good idea. I think there should be three variants: a straight beam which moves from the attacker to the target, a beam from the attacker through the target and continuing off the screen, and a flamethrower animation where the individual elements spread out randomly rather than moving in a straight line. Could also have target-to-attacker direction inversions.

I think that the battle animation system needs a major overhaul to convert it to slices (a pre-requisite to complete battle scripting). So that would be a good time to look at adding new animations.

No promises.
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[mjkrzak]

Never expected any. Pasta at the wall.

[Sparoku]

[TMC]

What, at battlescripting? But I thought you were complaining about writing scripts and other advanced features being too difficult!
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[Sparoku]

[TMC]

Ah, OK. I assume you're interested in being able to animate things freely in general rather than specifically the attack animations I mentioned.
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[Fenrir-Lunaris]

[Bob the Hamster]

[Chronoas]

If we're talking about potential new battle animations, I'd like to chime in with a request for one I've always thought would be useful. I've been thinking that a 'full screen' animation would be nice to have.

For example, if I want to have an attack that hits all the opponents, and just have the attack animation a big explosion on the enemy side of the screen.

Or, if I want to have a 'summons', I can, for example, animate a dragon on the right side of the screen, with it breathing fire towards the left side of the screen (at the enemies).

The only problem being that it would have to be a different size to the current attack animations in the program. Could be done with background screens, I suppose, which I imagine could then be done with battle-scripting anyway, once that's complete. Just throwing it out there.

[TMC]

Yes, one or the other. I'm not sure which I prefer. Large animations might be cumbersome, but would be more consistent than using backdrops.
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[Ronin Catholic]

I've always wanted to have "touch" attacks where the character dashes in and uses his Cast frame instead of his Attack frames. Likewise teleport-cast, standing strike, spinning cast, and so on.
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[Sparoku]