Fire sword [RESOLVED]

[Vibliribland]

Hi, Im in the early stages of making an RPG,

One question arose today,

How do I make a "Fire sword" animation? For a regular attack with a fire enchanted sword.

When I try to make an animation, a new one, I change the maximum so I can create a new one. Then I change the animation graphic to attack or whatever, but then when I choose which animation to go in which frame, there is only a limited selection, I asume it is based on which attack animation I chose.

I want to have the regular sword attack in maybe 3-5 frames, then the fire animation. So it appears as a fire enchanted sword.


Thanks a lot for any help

[Wlachen]

great thing to do is download the trail version of vx and export all of its animations to xp and it has some very nice animations one being a fire sword attack

[Grafikal]

Ok. I went and made you a nice fire sword animation.

Here's how to use it.

Download the demo.
In your project, make sure you import the animation from the demo's animation folder labeled FireSword.png
In the demo, go the the database and open up the animations.
Copy animation ID 102 and paste it into your game.
Done.

You can change it however you like.

[Vibliribland]

Thanks a lot, works nice with the animation.


However, this only solves a portion of my problem.


Can I somehow change so that all animations are in the same folder?

For example, I need a : Fire, ice, thunder, venom, earth, wind, darkness, light, knockout, sleep, etc etc etc Sword.

Then I need all the above, for all the different weapons.

including claws.


So what would solve it all, would be if all animation was accessable from any Animation graphic choice in the list.
So even if I there choose Explosion.png I still get to add claws and ice and swords.

Am I beeing confusing =)

EDIT: And also, how do I add more then one sound effect to an animation? Right now I can only choose Fire, or Sword attack as sound for my firesword attack

[Grafikal]

Well, to have all of those animations, you'd have to make them all yourself if they don't already exist. You could reuse the same animation for more than one skill. To come up with a quick solution to using a claw with a fire ability, just make the same animation as FireSword, but instead of 1 slash, make like 3 coming down at the same time, then have 3 fire strokes come down after it.

About your edit though. I was having some issues with getting more than one sound effect working as well. I didn't come up with any solution, but I left the second sound effect in there incase it was just me.

[tSwitch]

umm...just add another sound effect, and change the frame it plays at to a later one?

[Vibliribland]

So there is no way of getting all the animations in one file?

Like it is now, I can choose attacks for sword, maces, fire etc, and use different fire sword etc attack animation, then add soundeffects to them.

However what I would like is in the list of animations (the different slashes etc) Is to have ALL animations there, so I can add ice, fire, darkness, slashes spears etc all in one attack if I would like =).

[Grafikal]

umm...just add another sound effect, and change the frame it plays at to a later one?

That wasn't working. Check the demo if it's a problem with you too? Because the slash SE is on like frame 3 and the fire SE is on like frame 8 or something. Maybe the slash SE isn't completed before the fire SE starts. If that even matters then XP is just stupid for animations.
Edit: And neither was the second flash on the enemy either. I kind of just don't like XP at all.

So there is no way of getting all the animations in one file?

Like it is now, I can choose attacks for sword, maces, fire etc, and use different fire sword etc attack animation, then add soundeffects to them.

However what I would like is in the list of animations (the different slashes etc) Is to have ALL animations there, so I can add ice, fire, darkness, slashes spears etc all in one attack if I would like =).

Well you can do what I did. I just exported a few Animation files from RPGM VX and then took them into photoshop and combined them correctly then imported it into XP. XP is lacking in the fact you can only have one animation sheet when working with them. So if you want like a medley of things to occur within a single animation, you'll need to have all those parts on a single sheet, which is where photoshop comes in.

[Vibliribland]

I imported all the animations from VX, so a few problems are solved.

I guess I'll have to work with what I have for now.

Adding the correct sound effect (I learned how to add another one) will do most of the job I think

[Grafikal]

Sweet deal. good luck.