Updating animated gif battlers (fixed)

[KillerMapper]

Hello,

I tried to replace the battler sprites by animated ones (gif format). Sprites are displayed correctly, but not animated except during the move selection.

I tried to find some fixes but without any success for now. I tried to look in the code, but I'm lost in it. I only know very basics. Seems like I need to update the sprites during the attacks... Any ideas for this ?

I'm surprised there is no tutorial about this problem. Maybe I missed it ?

Thanks.

 

[Luka S.J.]

It's not a problem. Essentials was not designed in the start to be utilizing animated GIFs as Pokemon Sprites. That being said, this question has been asked and answered numerous times already. All you had to do is search this forum.

Anyway, check this thread here.

 

[KillerMapper]

Well... I've been looking in all this forum and I successfully missed this topic...

I'll try to get this working now. Thanks for your help.

Edit : it worked, battlers are animated. But...
I can't rid of this : i.imgur.com/lGphJtH.jpg

When the foe pokémon faints, it's sprite goes down as usual, then vanishes. But it comes back immediately, when the message "The foe X fainted". I've just added "pbFrameUpdate(nil)" where it was needed to update the battler gifs, nothing more.

I looked on the script that manage fainted pokémon animation :

# This method is called whenever a Pokémon faints.
  def pbFainted(pkmn)
    frames=pbCryFrameLength(pkmn.pokemon)
    pbPlayCry(pkmn.pokemon)
    frames.times do
      pbGraphicsUpdate
      pbInputUpdate
      pbFrameUpdate(nil)
    end
    @sprites["shadow#{pkmn.index}"].visible=false
    pkmnsprite=@sprites["pokemon#{pkmn.index}"]
    ycoord=0
    if @battle.doublebattle
      ycoord=PokeBattle_SceneConstants::PLAYERBATTLERD1_Y if pkmn.index==0
      ycoord=PokeBattle_SceneConstants::FOEBATTLERD1_Y if pkmn.index==1
      ycoord=PokeBattle_SceneConstants::PLAYERBATTLERD2_Y if pkmn.index==2
      ycoord=PokeBattle_SceneConstants::FOEBATTLERD2_Y if pkmn.index==3
    else
      if @battle.pbIsOpposing?(pkmn.index)
        ycoord=PokeBattle_SceneConstants::FOEBATTLER_Y
      else
        ycoord=PokeBattle_SceneConstants::PLAYERBATTLER_Y
      end
    end
    pbSEPlay("faint")
    loop do
      pkmnsprite.y+=8
      if pkmnsprite.y-pkmnsprite.oy+pkmnsprite.src_rect.height>=ycoord
        pkmnsprite.src_rect.height=ycoord-pkmnsprite.y+pkmnsprite.oy
      end
      pbGraphicsUpdate
      pbInputUpdate
      pbFrameUpdate(nil)
      break if pkmnsprite.y>=ycoord
    end
    8.times do
      @sprites["battlebox#{pkmn.index}"].opacity-=32
      pbGraphicsUpdate
      pbInputUpdate
#      pbFrameUpdate(nil)
    end
    @sprites["battlebox#{pkmn.index}"].visible=false
    pkmn.pbResetForm
  end

This is the default script in PE, with some extra pbFrameUpdate.
The battler sprite should vanish progressively then become invisible. But it keep going back immediately when the next text message appears... The issue is probably in another script...

Maybe I could just move the sprite to a higher y coord, so it goes outside the screen. I'll try it later.

Edit : ok the fix worked.