AS animation of Characters

[bape]

im planning of making a sideview action game. Because i want to push things a little further i want to drop the use of basic sprite animation. Im aiming at getting fluent transitions between movements via AS. So instead of switching the walking animation to jumpinganimation, i want the legs moving to the beginning of a jumping animation(actionscripted) and then jump.
I hope my explanation is clear, has anybody tried this before? Any helpfull resources?

[Dr Warm]

i think this would be a kind of dodgy approach, so u want to animate the legs with actionscript? i think this is a bad idea, cos all u would be able to do is rotate them a little back and forth, then rotate them alot.

i think ur best of doing it by animation, u can still make fluid movement, bump up the framerate and add more keyframes in between to make it look better. and u can still make the transitions between running/jumping just be careful how u code it

[JoMan]

Yeah, I agree with Dr. Warm. Animation by actionScript is not the way to go, I tried it once, and it really stunk! I too suggest animating your character.

P.S. If you need help in your animation, I would be happy to give you some tips :).





peace

[bape]

Yeah, I agree with Dr. Warm. Animation by actionScript is not the way to go, I tried it once, and it really stunk! I too suggest animating your character.

P.S. If you need help in your animation, I would be happy to give you some tips :).

peaceHmm not the answers i was hoping forr haha but thanks for the opinions. I already worked with traditional animation but i thought id push things on this project. Think it will be well difficult, but if i dont try i will never know.

[JoMan]

Well, good luck then :), and may the force be with you!... *snort* sorry, I have always wanted to say that! lol!





peace

[frozenRage]

hmm, could u post the results of this project upon completion. sounds quite interesting, i've never really thought of tryin to use AS to control an animation like that. good luck

[bape]

hmm, could u post the results of this project upon completion. sounds quite interesting, i've never really thought of tryin to use AS to control an animation like that. good luckI'll be glad to do so, now back to work:sigh: