How to use animated tiles?

[Garlic]

http://www.ascensiongamedev.com/resources/filehost/fe09ad03f2756f72314d0a9e9a6e638d.png

 

So when I go into the dropdown menu I don't see "Animated Autotiles", all I see is "Animated XP" and "Animated VX", which default to HUGE blocks (not sure why it doesn't let me manually select what I want to animate instead of forcing major areas) , anyway, I'm wondering how I can use this since I can't autotile it + animate it, I only have animated or autotile...

[OniSensei]

Here is how i did it.

 

I cut the sprite for the torch into rows like so:

 

Then i set up the animation,

 

After that, i used an event tile and set the animation to the torch animation i just made.

 

In game:

[jcsnider]

The animated map tiles require tiles laid out like this:

 

Tiles like those allow you to make ponds, beach shores, etc and the water be animated.

 

To use your fire animation on a map you will want to setup an animation in the animation editor.

 

Then you can use the attributes tab on the map editor to place your animation whereever you'd like.

[jcsnider]

1 minute ago, defaultx said:

Here is how i did it.

 

I cut the sprite for the torch into rows like so:

 

Then i set up the animation,

 

After that, i used an event tile and set the animation to the torch animation i just made.

 

In game:

 

Looks great and far more detailed than my response . Only edit I’d recommend is using the animation option under map attributes instead of events. Will be slightly less processing that way   

[OniSensei]

I didnt even see that! Thank you!

 

-Edit

Setting it under attributes even shows the animation in the editor! Thank god! This makes it so much better haha!

 

-Edit 2 Only  gripe is it takes away my blocked attribute so i have to be careful.

[Zetasis]

@defaultx Nice explanation! Ignore what I said last. I hadn’t fully read through the thread to be honest lol. 

[OniSensei]

1 minute ago, Zetasis said:

@defaultx you can place a blank event over the attribute for a quick work around. Though npcs might be able to walk through them but I’m not sure on that. 

Good idea thanks!