Map Tile Animation

[The Wobbler]

What's the cleanest, easiest way to do tile animation with more than five tiles/frames? Developer dudes, any chance of expanding the basic tile animation functions?

[kylekrack]

I've heard of using both animation patterns and freezing on one while beginning the other, on two different layers. Does that make any sense? Eh, someone else'll come up with something better anyway.

[Mogri]

What's the cleanest, easiest way to do tile animation with more than five tiles/frames? Developer dudes, any chance of expanding the basic tile animation functions?

If you dedicate an entire tileset, you can cycle through the whole tileset with just a "right 1, wait 1" animation. Super Penguin Chef does this in the Chickendome dungeon for the green scanline in the background, and Timpoline does it in the EX levels for the "tortured souls" background.

It's a problem if your animation frames aren't a factor of 128, since you'll need to stutter a couple of frames to get it to align, but it's not that big a problem.

[The Wobbler]

That sounds worth trying, good call boss.

[TMC]

If you dedicate an entire tileset, you can cycle through the whole tileset with just a "right 1, wait 1" animation. Super Penguin Chef does this in the Chickendome dungeon for the green scanline in the background, and Timpoline does it in the EX levels for the "tortured souls" background.

Wow, I didn't think anyone would actually do that. Note that this onyl works if you use up all the slots in the pattern so that there's no "end of animation" command (which resets the offset)

There's another way: you can script your own animation patterns using set tile animation offset. For example if you want an 8 tile long animation for pattern 0 for the tileset for layer 2, you could write

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while (true) do (
  for (i, 0, 7) do (
    if &#40;current map <> map&#58; whichever map&#41; then &#40;exit script&#41;
    set tile animation offset&#40;0, i, 2&#41;
    wait&#40;1&#41;
  &#41;
&#41;

And make sure to set an empty animation pattern in the editor so that they don't conflict.