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[Queen_Ismaire]

The person that helped me script and animate this doesn't know how to script for staves and I have a much lesser clue on how to do it myself.

Could one of you help me? Heres the file and the script below it has all the animations and pictures it needs.


http://www.megaupload.com/?d=V53SASSY

[Ryrumeli]

How to animate a sprite to use staves? It is a normal magic stance, dude. So just making a magic unit stance will do. The game apparently handles stuff in a very simplistic way. The "hit" point is always the same. A battle in between two units with positive damage is a battle, a battle in between two units with negative damage is a healing, a battle with just one person with positive damage is a poison battle, and a battle with just one person and negative damage is the use of an item.


So just make the staff animation a normal spell-using animation, and assign all staves to it with the appropriated Nightmare module, like you would do normally.

...BTW, if I were you I would sprite in the staff the shine for when it happens. Staves shine, and use colors from the sprite to do it, so in case you want your sprite to seem more realistic, I would suggest you made the staff shine a bit while being used, gives it a more magical aura.



Oh, well, and the only problem you would face is that units can't use magic AND physical weapons at the same time. If an unit has levels in both a physical and a magical weapon, the animation for all physical attacks would become your ranged sword attack, instead of your regular physical attack. It is a silly bug, yah, but I think in Xeld's notes you have a way to address that, with ASM.(Pretty much a completed ASM code, if I remember it correctly. With more than one approach, even.)

[Queen_Ismaire]

I don't get it


Feditor Adv keeps on giving me a problem in Mode 7

and gives me this problem

"unexpected error reading or loading the script"

and then it links me to the last path.

I checked the frames/pictures in Usenti and they're all under 16 colors. Idk what could of possibly go wrong. Its not the script either because I tried it with other frames and it worked fine.

[Navi]

Yes, but it is possible that they are a DIFFERENT 16 colors, that happened to me before. Dump each frame's pallete and compare them.

[Queen_Ismaire]

thank you it worked