Sprites | Attack Animations

[biosboy4]

I've been driving myself bonkers trying to figure out how to make the sprites attack something besides masking over it with an animation.

I haven't tried changing the spriteset during the attack since that seems really cumbersome overall.

Is there a better way(s)?

 

Thanks,

 

biosboy4

[Beefy Kasplant]

There are no attack animations at the moment. Once Intersect goes open source that should be an easy addition. 

 

Reason that the attack animation isn't in is because it's a lot of work to add attacking poses to all of your sprites and paper dolls.

[biosboy4]

Is there a proposed workaround in the meantime?

[Zetasis]

One thing you could do is make weapons as a projectile. Make melee weapons with a range of 1 tile and add an animation. Not the best work around but it's the only thing I could think of. Good luck. 

[Diefool]

If you really want to jerry-rig something I don't even know how you would go about it..... possible theories:

- Mask an animation over the player position after setting the sprite/paperdoll invisible (would require hundreds or thousands of animations)

- Use separate sprite sheets and swap them out on the fly
 

No clue man, I would honestly just use what you have available now and wait to implement this as it would be a bunch of wasted time in the long run.

 

EDIT: Zetasis has a decent theory as well... like I said sounds like a bunch of wasted time and something that could be implemented later... I'm sure the project has a lot more to focus on in the meantime considering the engine itself is only a year old