Newb - How do you animate an enemy attack?

[assphyx]

Forgive me if this is very basic, but I've been having difficulties accomplishing this task, which is the bases of my project.

Basically, I have a 10 full frame animation of an enemy attack I want to play after the enemy performs a particular skill. What's the best way to do this? Should I "Show Picture" frame by frame? or use "Show Movie"?

Also, can I get damage info above the animation? Thanks!

 

[Kes]

Do you mean a skill animation or a sprite animation?

 

[Poryg]

As for the animation, if it is a skill animation, you simply assign it in the skills tab in database.

 

[assphyx]

Sorry if I'm not making myself clear. Hopefully these screenshots help. It's a front view battle and when the enemy attacks, a movie of him pulling the move appears with damage data appearing at certain times of the footage. How would you accomplish this?

 

[Poryg]

The damage pop-up is Yanfly's plug-in that I shared, perhaps with some modification. And that movie sequence is either a gigantic battle animation (which you can build in Database-animations and assign to a skill via Skills tab) or a fairly advanced javascript.

 

[assphyx]

I see.

So I've tried building it in my animation database, but the images are so big (1000x500px), they show as broken pieces as if it can't treat one giant image as a frame. Am I doing something wrong?

 

[assphyx]

btw, is this the damage popup plugin you've shared?

 

[Poryg]

I see.

So I've tried building it in my animation database, but the images are so big (1000x500px), they show as broken pieces as if it can't treat one giant image as a frame. Am I doing something wrong?

Perhaps it really can't, which would mean it's an animation played by javascript.

btw, is this the damage popup plugin you've shared?

These two videos are about two different plugins made by two different people So no.
Btw. Yanfly engine plugins and Victor engine plugins have huge compatibility issues when put together, so I wouldn't try to mix them together too much.

 

[assphyx]

Got it. I’ll make a note of that.

Poryg, thx a lot. Appreciate your patience and help. Hopefully I can make this work given the limitation and your help.

 

[Poryg]

I haven't really done anything if you're a newbie as you say though, maybe it will be better to get to know the engine a bit better before trying anything crazy. Because in all honesty, that animation doesn't look like anything simple.