meager sluice
(This might be a lil late cos it's been like a day or two since the release but)
I recently released a new version of flxanimate!
The main feature that's been developed in flxanimate is that you can modify everything (symbols, layers, elements, etc) far easier than before!
It doesn't look like too big of a deal but I had headaches with this shit lmao
winter dune
i saw this update after being told my pr was out of date and it completely broke my game lol
meager sluice
Oh damn LMAO
I tried to not change too much shit, but I did change the arrangement of how the animation typedef would be displayed
Maybe it was that or it is it something else much worse?
meager sluice
i saw this update after being told my pr was out of date and it completely broke...
I hope it was only one variable/function in specific that broke the game and not 70 billion
winter dune
I hope it was only one variable/function in specific that broke the game and not...
2 things i noticed happen
the fact that the game COMPLETELY crashes when loading a character
and this play animation function (bc i liked making a check for animations to see if they can just continue) cannot work with the new system
i'll probably attempt to update on another branch soon
but for now i'm still using my fork
i would also like to demonstrate this but uhhhhh
this project is kinda private rn lol
meager sluice
Symbol is no more
curThing.symbol I mean
I should've explained more but the new animation thing is instance and framerate
Instance is basically a FlxElement, which has the name of the bitmap, a matrix and parameters of the symbol if it is a symbol
And then there's the string variable name
winter dune
And then there's the string variable name
i think i did resort to using this and it worked
meager sluice
You can get the symbol itself with anim.symbolDictionary
winter dune
the main problem was just the character crashing the game
once again, i'll debug that more later and tell you about it
meager sluice
👍
meager sluice
@winter dune Sorry for pinging but I recently made some commits to the repo cos I saw that I forgot to organise stuff from FlxAnimate and I thought that it may have resolved the crashing you had
it's released on the git version rn
pastel grotto
hey there @meager sluice, sorry for disturbing you lol, welp, i've been searching for days already a good way to implement texture atlas to the thing im making rn, and im now trying with FlxAnimate, and it works awesome!, but i got some questions and some problems about it, i saw that the hitboxes are pretty small, is there a way to make them fit the whole anim?
meager sluice
hey there <@726161533540761662>, sorry for disturbing you lol, welp, i've been s...
Hey!
Currently the hitboxes arent supported yet, cos Ive been not able to write how would be a hitbox depending on the matrix.
I'll come up with something but in the meantime, srry for the inconvenience
pastel grotto
ohh right, thanks a lot anyways!
meager sluice
👍
pastel grotto
ig i'll be using animateatlas at the moment, but oof, that thing eats more ram than chrome LOL
testing with the same anim
meager sluice
Yeah, animateatlas takes a lot of ram because what it does is transform the texture atlas into a spritesheet
Thats the main reason why it takes huge space
pastel grotto
ohh huh, that's pretty interesting
oh yeah also, while i was using FlxAnimate i got some weird problem while switching states, getting null obj references, idk if it's something on my side or the actual FlxAnimate
mostly getting the null thing here
meager sluice
Oh fuck
Yeah, thats on flxanimate, I forgot to change that destroy function
I'll change it when I have time.
Mainly after hittin the sack cos its quite late for me
pastel grotto
oh alright!
oh also (this is the last thing lol), i noticed some xfl i was using to debugging flxAnimate, when generated by adobe animate not always all the symbols have the transformationPoint in it for some reason, so when using flxAnimate i got these null obj references, so probably in the future you could make it able to work without these existing, like make it default to 0, 0, (kinda weird but yeah) when i added them to the json the anim works fine, i hope that can help to improve flxanimate, it's pretty awesome!
and thx you so much
meager sluice
and thx you so much
Thanks to you for testing and telling me about the issues!
Have a nice day
pastel grotto
you too!
meager sluice
@pastel grotto srry for the ping but I recently released a new version of flxanimate that basically fixes the crash when u switching states
I hope that u werent asleep or smth like that lol
pastel grotto
ohh amazing!, gonna test it in a while
meager sluice
👍
meager sluice
FlxAnimate
meager sluice
[showcase] FlxAnimate (partially) supports filters inside MovieClips on runtime!
Here's a small showcase of it in action
from what I've tested, works both on desktop Windows and Html5
mortal ember
How do I use this?
meager sluice
How do I use this?
if you mean about the filter support, It's not released yet. It needs some retouches I need to do before releasing it, but the use would be setting the symbol as a MovieClip and then using the filters variable that will come out on 4.0.0.
otherwise, if you mean about how to use FlxAnimate as a whole, you can always dm me with any questions you have and I'll be glad to help you!
mortal ember
I don't mean the filter support of it
I mean that I wanna know how to use FlxAnimate
meager sluice
I mean that I wanna know how to use FlxAnimate
Any specific questions?
If not, the first I'd say is that you should follow with how to instance it.
It's similar to FlxSprite, but except that adding a Graphic on the third argument, you add the Path where the texture atlas is ubicated
Example:
// Normal FlxSprite
var sprite = new FlxSprite(0, 0, "Path/to/Graphic");
// FlxAnimate
var atlas = new FlxAnimate(0, 0, "Path/to/Atlas");
When you input the Path of the atlas, input the folder where It is located, do not put the path of any of the files that are inside the exported folder
Make sure the path is correct and then you add the atlas and It should be rendering
To tinker with the animation of the texture atlas, you need to use anim instead of animation
Its the custom animation controller of FlxAnimate and the other one is not used in the class
mortal ember
Does it support sparrow atlas?
meager sluice
Does it support sparrow atlas?
If you mean that if flxanimate.FlxAnimate supports Sparrow atlases, It does not, for the sole reason that the class specialises only on texture atlases, however, It is available on flxanimate.frames.FlxAnimateFrames that you can use to parse and apply spritesheets to FlxSprite. You can use It by typing FlxAnimateFrames.fromSparrow and you add the path of the xml. This supports both Sparrow v2 and Sparrow v1 on Animate btw
mortal ember
I'm trying to figure out how to make spritesheets waste less ram like chrome
Because I want spritesheets to eat 20% of the ram then it's currently eating
meager sluice
[showcase] I implemented Bevel Filters in FlxAnimate! Here's the filter in action
(This is prob more of a openfl feature implementation, but I made it for FlxAnimate so ¯_(ツ)_/¯)
zealous olive
[showcase] I implemented Bevel Filters in FlxAnimate! Here's the filter in actio...
Neat! got a link to the implementation, or a demo?
meager sluice
Neat! got a link to the implementation, or a demo?
Not really I'm afraid
The idea of filtering is in process, but the way I did is export the texture atlas with the filter applied, and then toggle it and untoggle it manually throughout a new variable called filters both in SymbolParameters and FlxLayer
meager sluice
the Bevel Filter in itself is similar to those BitmapFilter classes, I should probably give it to openfl so that they can tinker
glacial bramble
I’m trying to play an animation whenever a key is pressed but it always crashes with:
Null exception: .anim
I’m using a texture atlas and im building to hashlink
meager sluice
I’m trying to play an animation whenever a key is pressed but it always crashes ...
Have you loaded and checked the path of the texture atlas before playing the animation?
Something to have in mind is that you need to set the path of the whole folder, any files inside that texture atlas wont be valid
For example:
"assets/images/ninja-girl" is correct, while "assets/images/ninja-girl/Animation.json" isnt
glacial bramble
I got the atlas to load and an animation to play but it crashes when I try to have it play an animation in the update function for some reason
meager sluice
I got the atlas to load and an animation to play but it crashes when I try to ha...
How are you playing the animation?
glacial bramble
How are you playing the animation?
character.anim.play("singUP", true);
Whats the error log?
glacial bramble
Whats the error log?
Uncaught exception: Null access .anim
Called from PlayState.update(PlayState.hx:45)
Called from flixel.FlxState.tryUpdate(flixel/FlxState.hx:220)
Called from flixel.FlxGame.update(flixel/FlxGame.hx:752)
Called from flixel.FlxGame.step(flixel/FlxGame.hx:682)
Called from flixel.FlxGame.onEnterFrame(flixel/FlxGame.hx:550)
Called from openfl.display._internal.$FlashRenderer.~register.0(lime/app/Module.hx:0)
Called from openfl.events.EventDispatcher.__dispatchEvent(openfl/events/EventDispatcher.hx:402)
Called from openfl.display.DisplayObject.__dispatch(openfl/display/DisplayObject.hx:1399)
Called from openfl.display.Stage.__broadcastEvent(openfl/display/Stage.hx:1181)
Called from openfl.display.Stage.__onLimeRender(openfl/display/Stage.hx:2046)
Called from lime.app._Event_lime_graphics_RenderContext_Void.dispatch(lime/_internal/macros/EventMacro.hx:91)
Called from lime._internal.backend.native.NativeApplication.handleRenderEvent(lime/_internal/backend/native/NativeApplication.hx:371)
Called from lime._internal.backend.native.NativeApplication.exec(lime/_internal/backend/native/NativeApplication.hx:146)
Called from lime.app.Application.exec(lime/app/Application.hx:150)
Called from $ApplicationMain.create(ApplicationMain.hx:135)
Called from $ApplicationMain.main(ApplicationMain.hx:26)
Called from .init(?:1)
before playing the animation, is the atlas rendering by itself?
without doing anything, just instancing and adding it
glacial bramble
before playing the animation, is the atlas rendering by itself?
yes
meager sluice
can I see a snippet of how you're instancing it and how you're playing the animation?
glacial bramble
package;
import flixel.FlxG;
import flixel.FlxState;
import flxanimate.FlxAnimate;
class PlayState extends FlxState
{
var character:FlxAnimate;
override public function create()
{
var character = new FlxAnimate(0, 300, "assets/images");
character.anim.addBySymbol("idle", "anims/idle", 24, true, 0, 0);
character.anim.addBySymbol("singUP", "anims/up", 24, true, 0, 0);
character.anim.addBySymbol("singDOWN", "anims/down", 24, true, 0, 0);
character.anim.addBySymbol("singLEFT", "anims/left", 24, true, 0, 0);
character.anim.addBySymbol("singRIGHT", "anims/right", 24, true, 0, 0);
character.screenCenter(X);
character.antialiasing = true;
add(character);
super.create();
}
override public function update(elapsed:Float):Void
{
if (FlxG.keys.pressed.J)
{
character.anim.play("singUP", true);
}
else if (FlxG.keys.pressed.K)
{
character.anim.play("singRIGHT", true);
}
else if (FlxG.keys.pressed.D)
{
character.anim.play("singLEFT", true);
}
else if (FlxG.keys.pressed.F)
{
character.anim.play("singDOWN", true);
}
else
{
character.anim.play("idle", true);
}
super.update(elapsed);
}
}
assets/images is a texture atlas right?
glacial bramble
yes
meager sluice
oh wait
glacial bramble
when i just do haxe character.anim.play("idle", true);
in create it works fine
meager sluice
you're instancing another different variable of the same name
glacial bramble
wdym?
glacial bramble
ah
meager sluice
you're creating a variable that's identical to the variable that's on the general class
but not setting the actual general variable
so it's basically null
are any more issues @glacial bramble?
glacial bramble
nope
meager sluice
👍
glacial bramble
It doesn’t seem to be compiling on haxeflixel 5.4.0
zealous olive
It doesn’t seem to be compiling on haxeflixel 5.4.0
what errors?
glacial bramble
what errors?
I had to take this off GitHub mobile so sorry if it’s a little hard to read lol
lost kindle
I had to take this off GitHub mobile so sorry if it’s a little hard to read lol
Apparently I "fixed" it on accident
Just remove or comment out the concat function
meager sluice
glacial bramble
Random question
How would I go about adding it to my fnf engine when the character class extends flxsprite. I’ve been trying to think of a solution for a while now and I got nothing
meager sluice
Random question
How would I go about adding it to my fnf engine when the charac...
with all due honesty
despite I love watching the fnf comm grow on them servers and myself have modded the vanilla countless times instead of resorting to fan made engines, I really cant tell
an idea that just crossed my mind rn is that you could do an interface that shares the Character hierarchy, and with that implement it to two different classes, SpriteCharacter and AtlasCharacter, that you can use for your own shenanigans
but again, I cant really dictate your own stuff, my implementations I did with FlxAnimate was to add FlxAnimate directly or change Character's extension to FlxAnimate
can give superficial tips, but cant be your coder assistant on something I dont even have access ¯_(ツ)_/¯
glacial bramble
with all due honesty
despite I love watching the fnf comm grow on them servers a...
ill probably try this thanks
meager sluice
👍
elder mist
I'm trying flxanimate for the first time and I'm having some problems.
I just installed it with haxelib install flxanimate, added it to an empty project with <haxelib name="flxanimate" />, and when I try to compile I get these errors:
D:/HaxeToolkit/haxe/lib/flxanimate/3,0,4/flxanimate/frames/FlxAnimateFrames.hx:142: characters 21-27 : Field concat should be declared with 'override' since it is
inherited from superclass flixel.graphics.frames.FlxAtlasFrames
D:/HaxeToolkit/haxe/lib/flxanimate/3,0,4/flxanimate/frames/FlxAnimateFrames.hx:142: characters 21-27 : Field concat overrides parent class with different or incomplete type
D:/HaxeToolkit/haxe/lib/flixel/5,6,0/flixel/graphics/frames/FlxAtlasFrames.hx:454: characters 18-24 : ... Base field is defined here
D:/HaxeToolkit/haxe/lib/flxanimate/3,0,4/flxanimate/frames/FlxAnimateFrames.hx:142: characters 21-27 : ... Different number of function arguments
apparently the installed version is 3.0.4, and the flixel version is 5.6.0. I supposed it was a issue caused by the recent flixel versions, so I tried an older one like 5.5.0, but still nothing
hollow ridge
Just remove or comment out the `concat` function
^
elder mist
^
Yeah just saw that, now im having more errors. I'm dont really know how to use it?? I just exported the sprite sheet as JSON in adobe animate and now added this in the code:
var character = new FlxAnimate(200, 200, AssetPaths.bf__png);
for (i in ['BF NOTE UP', 'BF NOTE RIGHT', 'BF NOTE LEFT', 'BF NOTE DOWN', 'BF idle dance', 'BF HEY!!'])
character.anim.addBySymbol(i, i, 24, false);
character.animation.play('BF idle dance');
add(character);
i really dont know how to use flxanimate 🙏
glacial bramble
Yeah just saw that, now im having more errors. I'm dont really know how to use i...
where is your json saved
In flxanimate you put the folder path not the spritesheet path
elder mist
where is your json saved
wait now i just dowloaded the sample in the repo https://github.com/Dot-Stuff/flxanimate/tree/master/samples/flixel
elder mist
where is your json saved
I tried to build the sample now (I didn't change anything) and the game instantly crashes with these errors:
Uncaught exception: Null access
Called from flixel.graphics.frames.FlxAtlasFrames.addAtlas(flixel/graphics/frames/FlxAtlasFrames.hx:439)
Called from flixel.graphics.frames.FlxAtlasFrames.concat(flixel/graphics/frames/FlxAtlasFrames.hx:457)
Called from flxanimate.frames.$FlxAnimateFrames.fromTextureAtlas(flxanimate/frames/FlxAnimateFrames.hx:128)
Called from flxanimate.FlxAnimate.loadAtlas(flxanimate/FlxAnimate.hx:88)
Called from flxanimate.$FlxAnimate.__constructor__(flxanimate/FlxAnimate.hx:70)
Called from PlayState.create(PlayState.hx:19)
You seem to put the path of the image, you need to put the one behind it. in other words "Path/To/Atlas", not "Path/To/Atlas/bf.png"
also something to note, it specialises mostly in texture atlases, so it has to be from the spritemap format
meager sluice
I tried to build the sample now (I didn't change anything) and the game instantl...
huh, interesting
elder mist
You seem to put the path of the image, you need to put the one behind it. in oth...
Oh yeah i forgot to update my case here
I got some help and managed to make it work
To fix the Null access error I just had to install flxanimate by git instead of haxelib install flxanimate
after that the sample project worked
now I'm having problems with exporting more than 1 animation as a texture atlas, but that's just a adobe animate thing lol
meager sluice
hmm
could be a git downloading issue maybe?
but im glad to see its working now lol
meager sluice
now I'm having problems with exporting more than 1 animation as a texture atlas,...
group the animations you want into one symbol
elder mist
group the animations you want into one symbol
And then add the animation by indices?
meager sluice
And then add the animation by indices?
I mean, if you wanna slice the animations sure, but its better to use addBySymbol if you wanna include the whole thing
and then, you just do .play("animation") and thats it
keen trail
i kind have a issue regarding selecting the flxanimate object
it just makes the whole screen black
anyone know a fix for this?
meager sluice
[showcase] I made a form for users that have used or are using FlxAnimate, asking for general suggestions, plus asking what does not really work with FlxAnimate, and some thoughts about a potential feature that's going to be included in the next version of FlxAnimate, Any honest answers will help tremendously on how to refine it as a whole
meager sluice
i kind have a issue regarding selecting the flxanimate object
it just makes the ...
maybe the size of your texture is too big to render?
have you tried using a different atlas to test?
keen trail
testing with the same anim
the actual animation renders
just when trying to select it with the built in select tools
screen goes black
unlike here where is the hitbox
meager sluice
the actual animation renders
just when trying to select it with the built in sel...
wdym select it?
keen trail
Showing the hitbox
And being able to move it
Using haxeflixels default tools
meager sluice
maybe it is the hitbox thing that makes it break?
consider that openfl does not support lines on hardware accelerated mode, so it resorts to CPU intensive stuff
and then it renders as a default shader
but if its too big, then it just disappears
glacial bramble
I wonder if flxanimate works on hl
Probably
mortal ember
Because for me, getting a sparrow atlas crashes the game
Idk if it's probably gpu caching
meager sluice
I'm actually curious
I test most of my stuff on HL, so 100% guaranteed
mortal ember
I wonder how I would fix the error when using FlxAtlasFrames.fromSparrow on hl
Because that happens to me when trying to get a sparrow atlas on hl
glacial bramble
I wonder how I would fix the error when using ``FlxAtlasFrames.fromSparrow`` on ...
Maybe report it if it’s a bug?
meager sluice
how big is your atlas?
mortal ember
I set up hashlink by dowloading 1.12 from the github, and did lime setup hashlink
Setting "HL_PATH" to the downloaded hl build path with hl.exe, from the lime config xml
hollow ridge
I set up hashlink by dowloading 1.12 from the github, and did ``lime setup hashl...
Latest hash link is 1.14 why are you using 1.12
mortal ember
1.14 doesn't work for some reason
hollow ridge
You sure
mortal ember
Yeah
meager sluice
Latest hash link is 1.14 why are you using 1.12
There might be incompatibilities with the latest, I myself use 1.12
meager sluice
for me aswell
hollow ridge
excluding some hscript calls breaking my whole shi on hashlink
its working fine so idk about any incompatibilities or not being able to parse basic sparrow sprites
meager sluice
does it happen anywhere else? @mortal ember
but Ig if you have those issues, its better to ask the big dudes on flixel
they might help ya with it
mortal ember
does it happen anywhere else? <@1048007979045232680>
but Ig if you have those i...
It only happens when I try to get FlxAnimateAtlas.fromSparrow
That's the entire function
meager sluice
Ah
mortal ember
I know rudy said that regex isn't supported with hl
meager sluice
it is supported, but fromSparrow does not use it
hollow ridge
I know rudy said that regex isn't supported with hl
regex IS supported on hl
i use it on one of my classes
mortal ember
Also, calling Sys.args() throws an error on hl
I did trace the crash log to see what caused it
meager sluice
I see
but if it throws errors with Sys.args(), is it related to FlxAnimate?
FlxAnimate does not override nor use Sys
mortal ember
FlxAnimate does not override nor use Sys
Yep
versed badger
1.14 doesn't work for some reason
I'm running 1.14 myself and it works fine for me
mortal ember
I'm running 1.14 myself and it works fine for me
Show me how you set up hashlink to get compiling to work on 1.14
meager sluice
maybe you downloaded a x86 version?
mortal ember
Please
meager sluice
hmmm....
ask around the flixel comm, I recall downloading it on 64 for this ver and working fine
altho some versions earlier I used x86 cos it did crash for no reason
maybe it could be that
elder mist
I wonder if flxanimate works on hl
it does
when I got it working i was using hashlink
mortal ember
I know
glacial bramble
is there a function for loading a packer atlas with FlxAnimateFrames?
also when loading a sparrow atlas with flxanimate do you do it how you would with flxatlasframes or loading a texture atkas
meager sluice
also when loading a sparrow atlas with flxanimate do you do it how you would wit...
its loaded the same way FlxAtlasFrames does, I mean, technically every function in FlxAnimateFrames except texture atlas works the same way as it would in FlxAtlasFrames would
meager sluice
is there a function for loading a packer atlas with FlxAnimateFrames?
FlxAnimateFrames only supports spritesheet exports that Adobe Animate has to offer
this includes easelJS, cocos2D, Sparrow, Starling, etc
glacial bramble
`FlxAnimateFrames` only supports spritesheet exports that Adobe Animate has to o...
O yea I forgot that wasn’t an animate export lol
also how do i get the current animation name
im trying to convert ```hx
animation.curAnim.name
wait nvm its just ```hx
anim.curSymbol.name
how do i check if an animation is looped?
mortal ember
this includes `easelJS`, `cocos2D`, `Sparrow`, `Starling`, etc
Why easelJS and cocos2D?
I've straight up never heard of those before
meager sluice
Why easelJS and cocos2D?
they're supported on the animate's spritesheet exporter ¯_(ツ)_/¯
mortal ember
Ok
meager sluice
how do i check if an animation is looped?
char.anim.curInstance.symbol.loop == Loop
glacial bramble
How do you properly export a texture atlas to use it with flxanimate
versed badger
I think you make a symbol and inside the symbol have all the animations you want to use
glacial bramble
I think you make a symbol and inside the symbol have all the animations you want...
It doesn’t load properly ingame tho
it does this ingame
versed badger
Hmmm im not sure, I havent used FlxAnimate in quite a bit
The only thing that comes to mind is checking if the symbol you're playing isnt the one that has all the animations
meager sluice
How do you properly export a texture atlas to use it with flxanimate
thats a vague question, can you specify what do you mean by properly?
meager sluice
it does this ingame
what's the rendering issue? Seems fine to me as a texture atlas getting all the animations
glacial bramble
what's the rendering issue? Seems fine to me as a texture atlas getting all the ...
It’s appearing as if it’s a spritesheet
meager sluice
is it laid like that on the atlas you exported?
if you wanna use different symbols inside a texture atlas, that's where char.anim.addBySymbol() comes along
and you add the name of the symbol
glacial bramble
is it laid like that on the atlas you exported?
No
glacial bramble
if you wanna use different symbols inside a texture atlas, that's where `char.an...
Also I tried it with a texture atlas i know works and it worked fine
meager sluice
No
hmm.... May I check the referred atlas to test further?
spritesheet behaviour is impossible in FlxAnimate
glacial bramble
hmm.... May I check the referred atlas to test further?
spritesheet behaviour is...
I’ll send when I get home
glacial bramble
hmm.... May I check the referred atlas to test further?
spritesheet behaviour is...
meager sluice
looking at the animation json, the main animation seems to be laid down in a "spritesheet" order as you said
May I ask how are you trying to instance the symbols?
whenever a symbol is on a folder, you should always indicate the path of said folder, in this case sprites/matt right note for the right animation it seems
zealous olive
you should be asking them what their code to load the atlas into a sprite, looks like
glacial bramble
you should be asking them what their code to load the atlas into a sprite, looks...
O yea I forgot to send that too I’ll send when I get home ig
glacial bramble
how does FlxAnimateFrames.fromJson work? when i try it it just gives me a blank image
or i just get a crash
zealous olive
show usage
mortal ember
I would really love that the symbol system can be recycled
meager sluice
I would really love that the symbol system can be recycled
can you explain what you mean?
meager sluice
how does FlxAnimateFrames.fromJson work? when i try it it just gives me a blank ...
can you show how you use it?
hollow ridge
can you explain what you mean?
afaik he is talking about reusing the symbols, probably only the data or the graphics
meager sluice
I mean, you can reuse symbols
as in you can add an element inside a keyframe that has the same symbol specifics
and you can do whatever you want with it
hollow ridge
mb i meant like, when you kill a sprite you can recycle its instance to reuse it and change some stuff inside it, i think he wants to be able to do the same with the symbols? yeah i dont really know why would he want to add recycling to it
meager sluice
mb i meant like, when you kill a sprite you can recycle its instance to reuse it...
I mean, if you wanna change some stuff inside it, just duplicate the symbol and change them yourself
the reason why you can't change the element is cos its merely an indicator to showcase that you wanna use this symbol with some specific parameters
or, if you want to modify the element to change its position, just do it directly
hollow ridge
yeah i guess, all that he wants its to reduce memory usage and improve performance on his stuff so whatever hes gonna read later he is gonna ignore it and go directly to implement it then ask why its not working
glacial bramble
can you show how you use it?
character.frames = FlxAnimateFrames.fromJson("path/to/json.json");
and it either gives a blank image or a json parse error
glacial bramble
actually only fromCocos2D works
glacial bramble
Anything?
mortal ember
The reason why I don't use flxanimate is because the symbol system isn't even recycled
glacial bramble
ok?
mortal ember
If the symbol system eventually gets reworked with recycling, I'll use it finally
Cause flixel's animation system in general has wrong offsetting
When it's supposed to be perfect
I can't wait for maru's flxanimate project to be released
Like man. The hitbox. It is awesome btw
lost kindle
yeah i guess, all that he wants its to reduce memory usage and improve performan...
I'm not even sure if recycling is necessary
Assuming my knowledge of flxanimate is right, it just draws quads of limbs?
mortal ember
Yeah
lost kindle
Yeah
on a side note, you're blocked for real this time
end of the line for a while, bye
lost kindle
Assuming my knowledge of flxanimate is right, it just draws quads of limbs?
I'm not even sure if there's such a way to "recycle" that
glacial bramble
```hx
character.frames = FlxAnimateFrames.fromJson("path/to/json.json");
```
@meager sluice sorry for ping
mortal ember
on a side note, you're blocked for real this time
For how long?????????
glacial bramble
For how long?????????
🗿
mortal ember
I wonder if flxanimate will support svg image files in the future
mortal ember
Yeah
There also is sparrow atlas
Idk if it's much better than flixel's but yeah I'm going to switch to flxanimate if they recycle symbols in the future
Cause I love reusing objects imo
It's great for performance too
versed badger
I mean you can always do it yourself and make a pull request :P
But didnt someone mention that recycling wouldnt make much sense in FlxAnimate
hollow ridge
I mean, if you wanna change some stuff inside it, just duplicate the symbol and ...
.
versed badger
Yeah
glacial bramble
mortal ember
Wdym?????
Are you actually serious?
My fnf engine performs very well on even a 1GHz pc
I mean it does have some extremely hacky code but still
hollow ridge
My fnf engine performs very well on even a 1GHz pc
ever heard of actually running it on one (vm, not an emulator like that 🙏 )
i doubt my chromebook (1.10ghz) cant even run it at this point
hollow ridge
yuh
mortal ember
Try to run kade engine 
hollow ridge
it runs fine too
mortal ember
Now can you try to run fnf unity party good?
Search "fnf unity party" and you'll find the gamebanana for it
versed badger
My FNF engine is meant to be ultra performant while using haxeflixel though
Then modify the lib to suit your needs
meager sluice
But didnt someone mention that recycling wouldnt make much sense in FlxAnimate
The reason why recycling doesnt make sense is because the concept of recycling is already a symbol term
Like, the same reason if you added in the FlxSymbol's timeline whatever, this Will affect EVERY FlxElement instance that references that Symbol
Thus, not understanding why would It be needed in the first place
Unless theres a reasonable explanation as in what issues could cause without this recycling
versed badger
Probably best to ask @mortal ember because I don't really understand what he's getting at either
meager sluice
I wonder if flxanimate will support svg image files in the future
Maybe
Im figuring how the whole SVG thing works in Flash
That way I could PR It in OpenFL and have my own implementation with shaders
meager sluice
<@726161533540761662> sorry for ping
Im looking into it, sorry for the very late response, Life happened lol
Yeah I need to recheck some of the spritesheet stuff, on Cocos2D I had a problem with rotated sprites, so the issue is known that some do not work as intended
meager sluice
There also is sparrow atlas
Its to add support to Sparrow v1 (by request of the Haxeflixel admin, he decided against supporting Sparrow v1, despite being a two line replacement)
But it adds support to just link the spritesheet file instead of requiring to add both image and XML file
versed badger
Does anyone even use Sparrow v1?
I feel like the only place where i've seen it was in Flash
meager sluice
I feel like the only place where i've seen it was in Flash
I suppose for porting older Flash stuff
Its not like outside of FNF theres that much Sparrow usage, and the thing's literally 2 lines of code to support
versed badger
I guess
meager sluice
I suppose HaxeFlixel users but yh idk
Id better like to support It since its there lmao
glacial bramble
Its to add support to Sparrow v1 (by request of the Haxeflixel admin, he decided...
Speaking of sparrow
Is there any difference between sparrow and starling since they look the same to me
meager sluice
Speaking of sparrow
Is there any difference between sparrow and starling since t...
I believe Starling uses Plist, Apple's propietary XML format
glacial bramble
I believe Starling uses Plist, Apple's propietary XML format
It generates an xml and it looks the same as a sparrow xml
glacial bramble
has anyone gotten blend modes working in flxanimate?
versed badger
i think dev branch on git has some implemented
glacial bramble
Ooh cool
meager sluice
Theres some implementation with It, but at the end of the day openfl needs to have them
meager sluice
Technically the way its implemented every blend mode is implemented
meager sluice
Now, the issue lays that openFL's implementation of blend modes is inaccurate, no way to fix that on library that isnt either overshadowing openFL classes or remaking the graphics class
meager sluice
Also any progress on FlxAnimateFrames being fixed yet?
Havent tested in depth
Ill look into It tho 
versed badger
It generates an xml and it looks the same as a sparrow xml
Now that I'm looking thru the actual code of the exporter, Starling seems to also include properties for the position of the registration point
zealous olive
zealous olive
https://github.com/Dot-Stuff/flxanimate
modern trout
i wonder why using a folder is required
meager sluice
i wonder why using a folder is required
a folder is required cos
there's gonna be a future exporter that takes advantage of this folder, but it would be nice to have something as a zip or use the MS-CFB format
modern trout
a folder is required cos
1. Animate exports it like this lol
2. it separates the...
That makes a lot more sense
Thank you!
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frank pumice
yeah, some mistake
glacial bramble
Haxebot tweaking
meager sluice
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/929146440628973649/1294433900487114882/BA...
I got shot but im back
and with an announcement
frank pumice
what doesn't kill you makes you stronger
glacial bramble
meager sluice
considering my deep struggles with Adobe's TAs, I had to do the following
with the help of @timid jetty we drafted a TA exporter from the ground up, basically an extension of the current Animate's TA, but with stuff such as:
LIBRARY for better readabilityMissing features like Shape Tweens, videos and others will get worked onand properly supported, with the intention of creating a fair substitute of Animate's integrated software
Keep in mind that FlxAnimate does not support 100% of the features that this exporter can output, it's being worked on!
Any feedback from this exporter, bugs, crashes and what not are valuable to iron it out to perfection! https://github.com/Dot-Stuff/BetterTextureAtlas
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@everyone - now the ping that will not get me shot twice
meager sluice
if there are issues to install it, hit me up, but should be as simple as following the README tut I made and copying all the assets over there
meager sluice
if anyone's interested on FlxAnimate that much they wanna hear updates on the thing, but like having to talk with other people, I made this silly server that will be pretty ease up bug reports or feature stuff, or simply what am I thinking to add in FlxAnimate
idk, the choice is yours lol
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@everyone - time to ping...
modern trout
nuhuh
hard kernel
is there any way to do multi atlasing with flxanimate?
zealous olive
is there any way to do multi atlasing with flxanimate?
FlxAtlasFrames has a concat() for this
meager sluice
is there any way to do multi atlasing with flxanimate?
not yet... but its on the works...
you can add the limbs, but I haven't figured out a concat for animation symbols and what not
marble lark
How does one add an actual animation for something like this?
var boyfriend = new FunkinSprite("boyfriend", 40, 40);
boyfriend.frames = FlxAnimateFrames.fromTextureAtlas("assets/characters/boyfriend/bfAtlas_assets");
boyfriend.antialiasing = true;
add(boyfriend);
im testing out FlxAnimate 
glacial bramble
How does one add an actual animation for something like this?
```haxe
var boyfr...
You need to use an FlxAnimate
It doesn’t like setting the frames to a normal sprite
marble lark
You need to use an FlxAnimate
It doesn’t like setting the frames to a normal sp...
I wish that was a feature
glacial bramble
alright wtf am I doing wrong now?
maybe just load the texture atlas directly instead of setting the frames
marble lark
maybe just load the texture atlas directly instead of setting the frames
what in the world does that mean
glacial bramble
what in the world does that mean
var character:FlxAnimate = new FlxAnimate(X, Y, "Path/To/Atlas");
Does FlxAnimate offically support blendmodes?
versed badger
I think there is some support on the git version
marble lark
neat
timid jetty
Does FlxAnimate offically support blendmodes?
git version supports it, although youll need to use the custom texture atlas plugin we made since the default exporter doesnt export blend modes
either that or manually adding them to the animation json file
timid jetty
https://discord.gg/n2YBsfv2JH
should be pinned I think
hard kernel
yeah
dull atlas
Helloo, I make a sprite with flxanimate and play an animation.
But i have a question, How do i hide a symbol/object in animation?
example
"Idle" has Head, Body, Legs
I want to hide head only.
how to do this?
meager sluice
[showcase] Have you ever wondered how does FlxAnimate/Dot-Stuff related tools or why is it done the way it is to become the way it's been? well, look no further ado because we, the Dot-Stuff team, have decided to make a series of presentations called "The Dot-Stuff Whiteboard"!
These "Whiteboards" will consist of explaining exactly that! for example: How to setup an FLA to juice out all the potential with FlxAnimate? How to use BTA? Usage examples on some of the features in FlxAnimate?
All of these and more on our FlxAnimate server, currently planned to make our first one on the next <t:1751137200:f> at FlxAnimate hate group !
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@everyone - hi
meager sluice
@everyone - hi
hi bro
timid jetty
@everyone - hi
hi sexy
frank pumice
hey
showcase is meant to be for showing off your things
not a server advertising ground
meager sluice
showcase is meant to be for showing off your things
I just used the showcase tag to showcase the stuff I did/would do in a later date, idk what's the problem when it's related to the FlxAnimate ecosystem 💔
I used the showcase thing for other stuff like forms or the discord server, why is it a problem now... 😔
meager sluice
I was encouraged to bring stuff over here, so I think it'd make sense to make a showcase type shi heh...
[showcase] I've been working on a MovieClip system, similar to the SWF rendering stuff, this way, when you play an animation, the movieclip follows its personal animation process, which you can later call to stop it, play it, and so on, much like MovieClips on SWF!
