Applying Scripts

[Bloodbane]

 Thanks Hide!

  The reason I haven't explain about any slam in my demo yet is because it's complicated. It's compilation of various features (scripts and features) to get certain goals.

 I would have to explain it part per part  . AND I'll post it in proper thread instead of this.

 However here's some explanation about some features:
1. attackone
 This feature enable attackboxes in grabattack animation to hit other opponent aside from grabbed one. In Brian's case, this allows him to hurt obstacles or other players while he is performing DDT.
 In case you don't know, I set Brian to be able to hit obstacles as well

2. Spawnframe and custentity
 If you read the manual, you should have get it. Anyway this 2 simply spawn an entity when a frame is reached. Spawnframe determines the condition and frame while custentity determines what entity would be spawned. If you want to know more, read the manual.
 Do you see the quake effect when DDT slams hero to ground? I made that effect with these 2 features.

 The other will be explained later.

 Oh yes, you are correct about fall3, it's the DDT-ed animation.
 @cmd calls function from script.c inside scripts folder. That's the exact explanation.

[HideRaisen]

Sound great Bloodbane, take as long as need to. I will look into the manual some more and I will look for any update you have on it when you do. Thankyou for taking your time to write back.

[Bloodbane]

 Argh! I was going to post it today but I was busy . OK, I'll work on it tomorrow. Oh yes, I'll post in Script demo thread not here.

 One last thing, I forgot to tell you that although slams consists of many features, not all features are necessary. For instance, attackone and spawnframe can be omitted yet the DDT will still be played.

[HideRaisen]

So when can you do it? but anyway take ur time.

[Orochi_X]

I'm posting up my (almost) complete 4 button/combo script. I might aswell explain it as I'm getting closer to releasing a demo....It's actually insanely easy.

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if (vName == "Ryo"){ //Playing as Ryo?
       
       if ((iAniID == 7 && iAniPos >= 2) || (iAniID == 81 && iAniPos >= 1) || (iAniID == 8 && iAniPos >= 3) || (iAniID == 82 && iAniPos >= 6) || (iAniID == 9 && iAniPos >= 6) || (iAniID == 83 && iAniPos >= 6) || (iAniID == 84 && iAniPos >= 8) || (iAniID == 112 && iAniPos >= 4) || (iAniID == 113 && iAniPos >= 2) || (iAniID == 114 && iAniPos >= 2) || (iAniID == 115 && iAniPos >= 5) || (iAniID == 116 && iAniPos >= 7) || iAniID == 107){ //Penultimate frames of attack 1 ,2 ,3 ,4 and thier variations and jumpland?

          if (iAttack){ //New attack key press?

             changeentityproperty(vSelf, "animation", openborconstant("ANI_ATTACK1")); //Switch to attack 1
                   
          }else if (iAttack2){ //New attack2 key press?

             changeentityproperty(vSelf, "animation", openborconstant("ANI_ATTACK2")); //Switch to attack 2

}else if (iAttack3){ //New attack3 key press?

             changeentityproperty(vSelf, "animation", openborconstant("ANI_ATTACK3")); //Switch to attack 3

}else if (iAttack4){ //New attack4 key press?

             changeentityproperty(vSelf, "animation", openborconstant("ANI_FOLLOW4")); //Switch to attack 4

}
I used DC's template , so I wont need to explain too much as it is already well documented.

The first line checks the name of the character. All my characters have different frame properties so I will need to define different anim positions for each.

That large chunk underneath is the main part. It is checking whether Ryo is in the penultimate or final frame of his attacks 1 -4 and their variants ( which are crouching and close attacks) and anim jumpland too , so that I may combo out of a jump attack.

The final frame of each of those animations is actually a dummy to allow the player slightly more time to press a button. I've chosen to use the last frame of anim idle so that it will seam flawlessly with the real anim idle if a button is missed.

After that , the script checks to see which button I press and changes animation accordingly.

Here is one of my attacks. They are all pretty similar , except for attack4 , which I will explain shortly.

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anim attack1
loop 0
delay          5
offset 32 99
                     bbox           14 4 41 95
@cmd    ani001 "ANI_FOLLOW6" 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
@cmd    ani001 "ANI_FOLLOW1" 0 0 0 0 -50 50 -10 10 0 0
frame data/chars/Ryo/lp01.gif
delay 7
offset 32 98
attack 39 14 46 34 5 0 0 0 8
frame data/chars/Ryo/lp02.gif
                     attack          0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
delay 8
offset 32 99
                     bbox           14 4 41 95
frame data/chars/Ryo/lp01.gif
                     loop             0
delay 15
offset 33 100
bbox 12 0 35 102
frame data/chars/Ryo/idle01.gif
DC has already done a fine job of explaining his script library so I'll keep it brief.

The first @cmd checks to see if the player is holding down whilst the second chacks to see if the enemy is in close range. In both cases , the animation will change to a different attack. One thing to note is that the first one overides the second.

Now for attack4. When you perform a scripted combo , after the last attack , the engine will take control again and perform the last attack stated in atchain (kinda annoying). I solved this by setting atchain to atchain 1 4 and giving attack4 just the last frame of anim idle. Meaning I have no visual discrepencies and I can use that small amount of time to initiate the combo again.

While I'm here , I would like to share my 4 button jumpattacks. Again very easy and work without errors for jump , jumpforward and runjump (havent implemented those yet)

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}else if (iAniID == 2){// jump anim

           if (iAttack2){//pressed attack 2

             changeentityproperty(vSelf, "animation", openborconstant("ANI_FOLLOW10")); //Switch to attack 2
                 
       }else if (iAttack3){//pressed attack 3

             changeentityproperty(vSelf, "animation", openborconstant("ANI_FOLLOW11")); //Switch to attack 4
                 
       }else if (iAttack4){//pressed attack 4

             changeentityproperty(vSelf, "animation", openborconstant("ANI_FOLLOW12")); //Switch to attack 4
                 
       }

       }else if (iAniID == 105){//jumpforward anim

           if (iAttack2){//pressed attack 2

             changeentityproperty(vSelf, "animation", openborconstant("ANI_FOLLOW13")); //Switch to attack 2
                 
       }else if (iAttack3){//pressed attack 3

             changeentityproperty(vSelf, "animation", openborconstant("ANI_FOLLOW14")); //Switch to attack 4
                 
       }else if (iAttack4){//pressed attack 4

             changeentityproperty(vSelf, "animation", openborconstant("ANI_FOLLOW15")); //Switch to attack 4

   }
The (brief) notation within the script should be enough explaination....

[Bloodbane]

 Nice trick Orochi! I can see your point! But you have to declare the variables you are using first, especially the 'key status' variables.

[bWWd]

Now lib001 doesnt work with new versions , i deleted some comments in it , it helped but its still not enough and it crashing engine.
Last version where it partialy works is this version:
OpenBoR_Win1284.rar

[kbandressen]

You'll have to talk to Damon about getting it updated; the script engine has just been through a lot of optimizations and is more strict about some things now.  I had to rework quite a few of my scripts as well, but it was well worth it to have the FPS boost that the reworked script engine has brought us!

[Damon Caskey]

My answer is going to be "soon". Because it is so far behind, I'm not supporting anything out of the script demo directly. Instead I am rewriting everything over from scratch. As soon as I have some viable material I'll be happy to release it for use.

DC

[bigmenace]

Say Damon you think you can reupload those script libraries? Its saying timed out under first post, and the direct downloads to your page says 404 not found.  I had them at one point but lost alot of stuff from my old pc.

[tushantin]

  Oh man, attachments timed out....

[bkdog411]

found it Thanks this is incredible