"Walking and talking" effect help...

[Taters]

*delurks*

Ok, the effect I'm talking about is basically this --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBh2eP7i1mE (WARNING: Video contains tiny spoilers from "Ef-the first tale".)

I'm able to get the scrolling background and the character bouncing up and down like she's walking using "Move", but I can't seem to be able to change her facial expressions without stopping and restarting the "walking" animation. Any ideas?

[PyTom]

For your Move command, give it the argument anim_timebase=True.

[Guest]

Hmm... I think I might be going about this all wrong... Right now my code looks like this. (Please excuse the subject matter )

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   scene gray
    show hooker1 at Move((0.3, 1.0, 0.0, 1.0),(0.3, 1.0, 0.0, 0.95), 2.0,repeat=True, bounce=True, anim_timebase=True)
    test "Look at me walk!"
    hide hooker1
    
    show hooker2 at Move((0.3, 1.0, 0.0, 1.0),(0.3, 1.0, 0.0, 0.95), 2.0,repeat=True, bounce=True, anim_timebase=True)
    test "It's like I'm working the streets or something!"

Right now, I have to put move on every different version of "hooker" otherwise the new image appears in the center of the screen, completely still. I also have to hide previous versions of "hooker" or it looks like there's multiple versions hookers stalking her. As a result, everytime I switch the facial expressions on "hooker", the walking animation jumps back to it's start position.

Is there maybe a way so I can change the facial expressions without getting that strange jumping animation? Like, maybe a way so the face is on a seperate layer but linked to her head which has "move" on it, so the two move together, but I can show and hide the face layers as needed?

Sorry I'm such a nuub....

[PyTom]

There's two things you can do. The first is to store the move into a variable, so you don't have to repeat all that code each time. The second thing to do is to break the image names up into two parts--- when two images share the same part, the second one replaces the first.

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init:
    $ walking = Move((0.3, 1.0, 0.0, 1.0),(0.3, 1.0, 0.0, 0.95), 2.0,repeat=True, bounce=True, anim_timebase=True)
    
     image hooker e1 = "hooker_e1.png"
     image hooker e2 = "hooker_e2.png"

label start:
    scene gray

    show hooker e1 at walking
    test "Look at me walk!"
   
    show hooker e2 at walking
    test "It's like I'm working the streets or something!"

[Taters]

Ooh!! Thanks so much!! That makes sense now! I've got it working! *does happy dance*