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[Immortal Wombat]

As I continue to learn this program, I'm adding attack animations to my sprites, and I have hit a problem. When I added the animation code, I get errors saying the line UNIT_SPRITE_IDLE should be further up the page.
Here's the code I'm using:

 
UNIT_SPRITE
{
	UNIT_SPRITE_MOVE	1
    {
        # This is the sprite action definition block.  All sprite
        # actions require this block if the sprite action is defined.
        #
        SPRITE_NUM_FRAMES     1    # number of frames of animation
        SPRITE_FIRST_FRAME    0    # the index of the first frame
        SPRITE_WIDTH         96    # the width of each sprite image
        SPRITE_HEIGHT        72    # the height of each sprite image
        SPRITE_HOT_POINTS          # the hot points (center points) of
                                   # the sprite for each of the 5 facings
            49 54     # facing 1
            49 54     # facing 2
            49 54     # facing 3
            49 54     # facing 4
            49 54     # facing 5
    }
	ANIM	1
	{
		ANIM_TYPE		1
		ANIM_NUM_FRAMES		1
		ANIM_PLAYBACK_TIME	1000
		ANIM_DELAY		10000
		ANIM_FRAME_DATA
			0

		ANIM_MOVE_DELTAS	0
		ANIM_TRANSPARENCIES	0
	}
	
	UNIT_SPRITE_ATTACK	1

	UNIT_SPRITE_ATTACK_IS_DIRECTIONAL	1
	{
        
        SPRITE_NUM_FRAMES     2    # number of frames of animation
        SPRITE_FIRST_FRAME    1    # the index of the first frame
        SPRITE_WIDTH         96    # the width of each sprite image
        SPRITE_HEIGHT        72    # the height of each sprite image
        SPRITE_HOT_POINTS          # the hot points (center points) of
                                   # the sprite for each of the 5 facings
            49 54     # facing 1
            49 54     # facing 2
            49 54     # facing 3
            49 54     # facing 4
            49 54     # facing 5
    }
	ANIM	1
	{
		ANIM_TYPE		1
		ANIM_NUM_FRAMES		2
		ANIM_PLAYBACK_TIME	1000
		ANIM_DELAY		2000    ----> the problem is on 
		ANIM_MOVE_DELTAS	1             this line 
		ANIM_FRAME_DATA                       		
	        1	2	3	4
		ANIM_TRANSPARENCIES	0
	}


	UNIT_SPRITE_VICTORY    1 
	UNIT_SPRITE_IS_DEATH    1 
    { 
        SPRITE_NUM_FRAMES     2 
        SPRITE_FIRST_FRAME    1 
        SPRITE_WIDTH             96 
        SPRITE_HEIGHT         72 
        SPRITE_HOT_POINT    58 38 
    } 

    ANIM    1 
    { 
        ANIM_TYPE             0 
        ANIM_NUM_FRAMES       2 
        ANIM_PLAYBACK_TIME    3300 
        ANIM_DELAY            0 
        ANIM_FRAME_DATA 
            1	2

        ANIM_MOVE_DELTAS    1 
        { 
            0 0 
            0 0

        } 
        ANIM_TRANSPARENCIES    1 
        { 
            15    12 
            
        } 

    } 
        UNIT_SPRITE_IDLE                0
        
        UNIT_SPRITE_VICTORY		0

	UNIT_SPRITE_WORK		0

	UNIT_SPRITE_FIREPOINTS		0

	UNIT_SPRITE_FIREPOINTS_WORK	0

	UNIT_SPRITE_MOVEOFFSETS		0

##then sprite sheildpoints...

All it says is:
ERR: GU02.txt line 62: Expected keword UNIT_SPRITE_IDLE not found
error in conversion process

And then it stops.
Can anyone help me ?

[This message has been edited by Immortal Wombat (edited March 17, 2001).]

[Paul]

In the example script in the spritetool documentation UNIT_SPRITE_IDLE comes before UNIT_SPRITE_VICTORY. In your script it doesn't, so that must be the cause of your problem.

[Immortal Wombat]

I've just tried swapping them, and it doesn't work that way either.
The error is the same.

[Paul]

Just noticed something I didn't notice this morning: UNIT_SPRITE_VICTORY appears twice in your script: near the bottom and about halfway through the script. You should put UNIT_SPRITE_IDLE before the first UNIT_SPRITE_VICTORY and delete the second one. I hope that will work.