Animated Portrait on Character Selection Screen

[Krishjan]

Hi, can anybody help me on how to animate the portrait of a character on the character selection screen in mugen 1.0? I saw in the Avenger vs. X-men full game released by Acey and his team that the portrait of their character on the character selection screen was animated.

[DizzyTheConquer]

Hi, can anybody help me on how to animate the portrait of a character on the character selection screen in mugen 1.0? I saw in the Avenger vs. X-men full game released by Acey and his team that the portrait of their character on the character selection screen was animated.

I think it's all with fonts but it can be tedious.

[Cyanide]

No, it's done with cursor hackery. That's the only animated element available on the select screen. Basically you have a screensized cursor and it changes because of spacing. No small portraits, it's a kinda ugly hack. Works best with small rosters. You get too big and the image gets too big. Mugen might stop coping over a certain size.

[trexrell44]

Sorry If I'm doing this wrong but I was actually trying this. I understand this for the most part but When using a 1.0 do you need to rescale the all the sprites to a higher resolution and also how do you make the cursor change when you select a new cell?

[Cyanide]

Assume screen is 640x480. Cursor spacing is ALSO 640x480. When you press left/right/up/down a new screen entirely is displayed. Thing is, it increases on a per character basis. So if you need 2 rows and 2 columns your picture is 1280x960 and so on.

IMO it maxes out at about 12 characters in a somewhat square formation, beyond that the picture is gigantic and too hard to deal with.

You can also use this for a normal sized cursor in a non standard screen format, like hexagons etc.

[trexrell44]

So is there a trigger of some sort saying that you if cell = x anim changes to y?  I feel so retarded

Edit: OMG I get it now..... crap.

[trexrell44]

So I thought I got it down. I get the concept but something is not working for me. I made my mugen resolution 640 by 480 and tried 2 characters real quick for a test. I made my image 1280 by 480 to see if the image would change but I could not get it to work I must be doing something wrong. This what I have

;Character select definition
[Select Info]
fadein.time = 10
fadeout.time = 10
rows = 2
columns = 6
wrapping = 0              ;1 to let cursor wrap around
pos = 0,0            ;Position to draw to
showemptyboxes = 0        ;1 to show empty boxes
moveoveremptyboxes = 0    ;1 to allow cursor to move over empty boxes
cell.size = 640,480      ;x,y size of each cell (in pixels)
cell.spacing = 640,480        ;Space between each cell
;cell.bg.spr = 150,0       ;Note: Don't use animation for cells
cell.random.spr = 151,0   ;Icon for random select (don't use animation)
cell.random.switchtime = 4;Time to wait before changing to another random portrait
p1.cursor.startcell = 0,0
p1.cursor.active.anim = 160
p1.cursor.done.spr = 160,0
p1.cursor.move.snd = 100,0
p1.cursor.done.snd = 100,1
p1.random.move.snd = 100,0

And this my cursor anim(for now)

[Begin Action 160] ;P1 active cursor
160,0, 0,0, 1