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[Graphics] Animated Trainer Sprites

Zervais

Zervais

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    Is there anyway that you can animate the front sprites of trainers? I know there's been research done into animating Pokemon sprites, but I'd be really interested in getting something akin to Pokemon Platnium.
     
    Zervais said:
    Is there anyway that you can animate the front sprites of trainers? I know there's been research done into animating Pokemon sprites, but I'd be really interested in getting something akin to Pokemon Platnium.
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    ahahahaha
    it's practically the same thing
     
    Zervais said:
    Is there anyway that you can animate the front sprites of trainers? I know there's been research done into animating Pokemon sprites, but I'd be really interested in getting something akin to Pokemon Platnium.
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    Isn't there a one battle in Fire Red when you're against Gary at the S.S Anne where he does a pose?
     
    Zervais said:
    How do I implement this though?
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    i'm betting that there are literally just 148 pointers in a row which are literally the same thing:
    E8 47 23 08

    at address 2347E8:
    Code: 
    00 00 00 00 
FF FF 00 00
    per entry:
    [2 bytes] - frame number (little endian)
    [2 bytes] - duration. probably in frames with maybe an upper deadband (if 16 (0x10) is about half a second, then let's assume 30 frames/second)? FE doesn't actually show the sprite for 254 frames (~8.5 seconds), though, so idk
    terminating string: FF FF 00 00

    so, if we go back to our table at 238E8C, it's in sprite index order.
    repoint one to free space or something, i hope you know at least how to do this for the trainer sprite you desire ahaha
    there, we'll put shinyquagsire's example:
    Code: 
    00 00 00 00
02 00 FE 00
02 00 30 00
01 00 0F 00
00 00 30 00
FF FF 00 00
    translation:
    frame 0 for 0 frames
    frame 2 for 254 frames
    frame 2 for 48 frames
    frame 1 for 15 frames
    frame 0 for 48 frames
    end

    so, how does the game decide frame indices (indexes)? this is also rather simple:
    frame 0 is the default trainer sprite. the topmost 64x64 pixels.
    frame 1 is the second topmost 64x64 pixels.
    frame 2 is the third topmost 64x64 pixels.
    a visual look at this can be obtained from this, where all the individual bulbasaur represent their own frames, 0 being the top, 3 being the bottom*
    when put into the game (using some custom code to make the pokémon themselves animated all the time and not just when put into battle. code made by a few friends from robotics and me literally yesterday):**
    [PokeCommunity.com] Animated Trainer Sprites


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