Frames per Walk Cycle at Various Speeds [SOLVED]

[stevenblanc]

Hi folks,

I'm working on a battler mini-game and I'm having a little trouble with the animation. Not knowing JS I've done reasonably well getting the whole mini game to run off of a couple events. However, I'm having trouble getting the animations to run smoothly.

Effectively I've set each attack and defense animation to the three frames of a walk animation. In order to play the animation I am turning the event to the relevant direction with stepping on and waiting 30 frames.

Obviously this is a guesstimate. I've been searching but I can't quite figure out home many frames are required for one full animation at the various event speeds. Does anyone know these numbers or point me to a resource that lists it out.

For example:

1: 8x Slower: 00 Frames/Cycle
2: 4x Slower: 00 Frames/Cycle
3: 2x Slower: 00 Frames/Cycle
etc...

I hope this is clear and thanks in advance for the help!

Cheers,

Steven

 

[caethyril]

I believe this is the default delay between frames for map characters:

(9 - this.realMoveSpeed()) * 3

realMoveSpeed gets the character's move speed, with an extra +1 if they're dashing (by default only the player can dash).

So delay per animation frame at speed 4 ("Normal", default player walk speed) is (9 - 4) * 3, i.e. 15 frames. This would make a full cycle (default 3 anim frames) 45 frames. Similarly for other speeds~

 

[stevenblanc]

Awesome thanks @caethyril!

So for reference (and in case anyone else wants a quick table and stumbles across this), we are looking at:
1: 8x Slower: 24 Frames (Ticks)/Animation Frame
2: 4x Slower: 21 Frames (Ticks)/Animation Frame
3: 2x Slower: 18 Frames (Ticks)/Animation Frame
4: Normal: 15 Frames (Ticks)/Animation Frame
5: 2x Faster: 12 Frames (Ticks)/Animation Frame
6: 4x Faster: 9 Frames (Ticks)/Animation Frame

1: 8x Slower: 72 Frames/Normal Walk Cycle
2: 4x Slower: 63 Frames/Normal Walk Cycle
3: 2x Slower: 54 Frames/Normal Walk Cycle
4: Normal: 45 Frames/Normal Walk Cycle
5: 2x Faster: 36 Frames/Normal Walk Cycle
6: 4x Faster: 27 Frames/Normal Walk Cycle

This is magical and explains a couple things I was having trouble with!

For future knowledge the +1 for dashing goes where:
(9 - this.realMoveSpeed() + 1) * 3; or
((9 - this.realMoveSpeed()) * 3) + 1?

 

[slimmmeiske2]

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