[Bontz-team] crAnimation

[Owen Swerkstrom]

sounds good, and will act as a good prod to get me to
re-animate mucka and the rest of the gang (I think the
current animations are too choppy, and a lot of the
cute idle stuff you mentioned is missing)  We ought to
have a difinitive set of what actions every playable
character will need.  Some I hadn't thought of before
may include jumping, climbing, crouching, looking
surprised, celebrating, looking sad, laughing... 
let's make an exhaustive list.

...and speaking of animation and your revolutionary
ideas...  It would be really neat to see a demo of
animated water with animated poles sticking out and
animated fish flopping atop them...  :^)


--- Chuck <address@hidden> wrote:
> i have an idea for a new revolutionary way to
> animate our sprites...i will
> call it crAnimation Branching(tm)(r)(c)(patent
> pending)(GPL)(need to cover
> all my bases...)
> the idea is to allow a certain frame of animation to
> randomly jump to
> another different track of animation.
> 
> for instance lets say we have a standing animation
> for mucka.  we would run
> the first three frames of the animation, and then we
> would reach a branching
> point.  at this branching point mucka could do one
> of several things that
> would be randomly selected.  lets say it could jump
> to a track where mucka
> takes a puff on his joint.  or it could jump to
> another branch where he
> waves at the screen, or maybe it jumps to a track
> where he throws his joint
> on the ground stomps it out and lights another. then
> from there it would
> jump back to the original track or maybe to yet
> another track.  to indicate
> this we would have to specifiy multiple things 1)
> the track to jump to 2)
> the frame of that track to jump to 3) the percent
> likely hood that this
> particular track will be chosen.


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