Animation with Mask as Transition
Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2018 12:20 am
I create my Animations with just the Characters movements. I use a Mask so that most of the screen is static. This allows me to Render my scenes very quickly and keeps the size of my Games data smaller.
Some of these Animations only make sense if they are done ONCE. I know I can achieve that with a cutscene but that doesn't seem to allow for a Mask so that I can provide the Background separately. At times I will have multiple Animations at the same time.
If I do it as an Movie I can do all of the Layering that I want, but I don't see how I can make it play the Animation only once.
image approach movie = Movie(channel="animation1", play="Character Approach.webm", mask="Character Approach-mask.webm")
show approach movie
Is there a trick that would make that possible?
One thought I had was to have an Empty message, block the screen input and then automatically move on. Is there a way to Timeout the message instead of requiring a click?
This is something that I want to do a lot.
Some of these Animations only make sense if they are done ONCE. I know I can achieve that with a cutscene but that doesn't seem to allow for a Mask so that I can provide the Background separately. At times I will have multiple Animations at the same time.
If I do it as an Movie I can do all of the Layering that I want, but I don't see how I can make it play the Animation only once.
image approach movie = Movie(channel="animation1", play="Character Approach.webm", mask="Character Approach-mask.webm")
show approach movie
Is there a trick that would make that possible?
One thought I had was to have an Empty message, block the screen input and then automatically move on. Is there a way to Timeout the message instead of requiring a click?
This is something that I want to do a lot.