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Is there a simple tutorial on making something animate?

by J Sears · in Torque Game Builder · 11/07/2011 (6:19 pm) · 3 replies

I was looking through the tutorial to try and find one that covered having something animate as it moved (or animate at all instead of be a static image that moved around). Does anyone have a link to one?
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Associate Scott Burns
GG Alumni
#1
11/07/2011 (6:39 pm)
Check out the Rainy Day Tutorial in the Official Tutorials section of the T2D Documentation Landing Page. While it doesn't exactly what you're looking for, it does covers animations in a context that you'll be able to make the leap to what you want to do from it. There's a video version of the tutorial as well.

Associate William Lee Sims
Machine Code Games
#2
11/07/2011 (6:39 pm)
The basic platformer movement behavior shows how to do this. It basically finds what the user is doing with key presses, then it calls a function to update movement and to pick which animation will play (stand, up, down, or run). This tutorial on platformer movement explains the logic behind all of the code (and it probably the best place to start).

Torque Owner J Sears
#3
11/08/2011 (9:32 pm)
Great, thank you both.