idle animations??

TabletopTimeTurner · Post by **TabletopTimeTurner** » Fri Aug 12, 2016 12:22 am

I want to animate some of the npcs that dont move to make them seem less lifeless, I was thinking of just doing something like having it so that it moves up or down but they stay in place but i don't think its possible and if it is then i dont know how to do it. Has anyone here tried doing something like this??

Taco Bot · Post by **Taco Bot** » Fri Aug 12, 2016 2:02 am

You might be able to achieve this by restricting them to a move zone, then putting a single tile of that zone under their feet. Can't confirm that this would work though. They might just get really twitchy...

TabletopTimeTurner · Post by **TabletopTimeTurner** » Fri Aug 12, 2016 2:32 am

Taco Bot wrote:You might be able to achieve this by restricting them to a move zone, then putting a single tile of that zone under their feet. Can't confirm that this would work though. They might just get really twitchy...

Yeah I now see there's a walk in place function available and it does almost work but the problem is that all the movement speeds are too fast, even speed 1 is too fast to work lmao.

guo · Post by **guo** » Fri Aug 12, 2016 9:12 am

Make animated tiles of the characters, then put invisible NPCs on top of them for activating text boxes etc.

Post by **TMC** » Fri Aug 12, 2016 2:14 pm

Alright, alright, everyone complains that the "walk in place" animation is too fast (it's the same speed as the walking animation; one frame per two ticks). We should just make the speed customisable*.

*It's my fault that it's not, because previously I objected to a per-npc setting, because it would clash with the future walkabout animation system. But a global rather than per-npc setting would be very clean with no backwards-compatibility problems.