Ideas for new features

I believe that TMC has a long term plan for better animation features, but I don't see it written up on the wiki.

I hope this doesn't make me evil: I've considered helping with the development many times, but I usually decide that I would rather make games instead.

Even though I never actually release anything.

I often do the same thing :)

Speaking of helping with development.... how difficult is it to understand the syntax in the source code? More so than HTML, I would assume, right? lol

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Relevant: http://www.somethingofthatilk.com/index.php?id=135

Wow, that's funny... mainly cuz it's true.

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Two more ideas:

1) Font highlights. I think something like this may already be happening, though.

2) Extra Hero animations/frames for victories instead of just using the two default ones. Is this possible?

i second the second! the way many people draw their battle sprites looks very silly during their little "victory dance". take the characters from Sword of Jade, for example. i wouldn't mind two extra frames. besides, you could always copy and paste if you can't be bothered.

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I third that. I've always thought that it's a big choice between choosing "stepping" or "dance" and you can't have both unless you're REALLY good at scripting. More would be great.

(And while we're at it, how about two/three frames for bad guys?)

An idea I had a while back for an attack animation was "Rise". It's sort of like "Drop", but... the opposite.

I had in mind the Doom/Death spell from FF6, where grim reaper-type spirit rises up from the afflicted.

i had this idea too. could be cool to have the attack "rise" from the attacker, and "drop" on the target. or whatever else you plan on doing.

while we're on the topic of battle animations, how about changing the silly looking "scatter" animation to multiple sprites? when i saw scatter, i expected it to look like the opposite of "ring", like an explosion, which is what i intended it's use for. instead, i got a single sprite that flies off in a random direction. if you have the "scatter" attack hit multiple times, the sprite flies around the screen. this is NOT what the word "scatter" implies. we should keep the original scatter, name it something different, and implement a more appropriate "scatter" animation.

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Instead of adding a "Rise" death animation, why not implement something like cycle back/cycle forward/oscillate for the death animations?

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i think he meant the attack animations themselves, not death animations for the enemies... like the attack sprite rises up from the target, not the enemy rising when they die. although that could be interesting as well.

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I mistyped, that is what I meant (though death animations would be hilarious)

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Spawn animations, anybody?

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