animation snap? need to smooth it out

#1 Is your spider on a path? Or is it programmed movement behavior?

#2 Hi William, it's programmed movement behavior.

What do you think?

Always~

#3 There's a function you can call on your sprites to only make them move forward: "%sprite.setForwardMovementOnly( true );". Then you can call "%sprite.setForwardSpeed( <speed> );" to (of course) set its speed and use "%sprite.rotateTo(...);" or "%sprite.setRotation( <angle> );" to set the direction it goes. If you use "rotateTo", you'll get a nice curve in the movement.

Let me know if it works!

#4 This sounds great William! I'll let you know how it goes~

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Vickie ;)

#5 You can't rotate sprites in an isometric game though, they won't appear to be aligned with the floor any more. You have to animate the turning and save this as a new animation.

Here's an example - the turning is an animation (exported from 3D software and made into a sprite sheet).

www.youtube.com/user/m0n0RAIL?feature=mhee#p/u/25/hDZdgHFKXTo

#6 Thanks Conner, that's good info to know. The game you showed me in the video is that your work? Its very good! I loved the smoothness of your animation. On another note I believe everyone when they tell me this engine is not for making isometric games, I really thought a torque product would be up to speed but I was wrong. But I don't give up! I have found an engine that will do what I need and it supports isometric animation with blending and culling. It also has static and dynamic lights!
I think this will do everything I need to complete this game I'm working on and I don't have to come up with a bunch of work around and settle for a crappy looking game. Now I can do what I need. Make me mad I spent the money on this engine and the adventure kit just to find out both of them are useless. I hope I can get my money back.

#7 Vickie - unfortunately it can take a while before you become familiar enough with an engine to know what its strengths and weaknesses are. I certainly wouldn't try to make an isometric game in Torque. However there are lots of other game-types that Torque is well suited to, and perhaps in the future you'll want to make something other than isometric games and find that Torque is a good choice.

Your screenshot looks really nice - although I think you need a transition texture from rock to paving. Some of your paving stones are getting cropped half way through which doesn't look good.

#8 this is just a test level Conner, don't be so critical LOL!