splashing water

[mccool]

is it possible to make it so when a sprite hits ''water'' tile then a splash anmation pops up then disappears? also how do i make it so when i jump on an enemy he ''squishes''?








P.S. SGDK is

[bluemonkmn]

Create a sprite that looks like a splash that gets created under the player when the player initially touches a special function covering the area representing the water.  The sprite should follow a path relative to the starting point, and the path should dimply be one point with a delay just long enough to play the animation.  Set the options on the sprite to delete at the end of the path.

[mccool]

thanks! that would seem to work. but where would i create the actual splash sprite's path and how do i know how many frames the animation is?




p.s. i would do basically the same thing for a squishing goomba too ,right?

[bluemonkmn]

Paths are created in the map editor.  It doesn't matter where you put it since it will be moved to the location specified in the create sprite function when the sprite is created.  Just click once to create the first point of the path and then press P to add a delay (... I think.  It's been a while since I've actually used version 1.x -- too busy working on 2.0).

There was a formula for calculating the number of frames of a sprites animation posted somewhere on the forums.  I suppose I ought to make that a FAQ or something... maybe I did .  Here's a link to the thread that talked about this before -- check billybob884's second message: http://gamedev.comdel.net/index.php?topic=682.0

[mccool]

instead of making the animation of the actual splash be the exact same length as the delay in the path, i just made a long delay in the path and added a bunch of blank transparent tiles after the splash in the sprite editor. it looks great.thanks!