Coding a character with two different sides (Two Face)

[drtremor]

I didn't know where to post this. I need to know how to take a character and make him/her have different sprites depending which side of the screen he/she is on. Example: Two-Face. I want the character to look one way on the 1st player side, but when he jumps over to the 2nd player, to show the other side. Does anyone know how to code this???

[Acey]

I didn't know where to post this. I need to know how to take a character and make him/her have different sprites depending which side of the screen he/she is on. Example: Two-Face. I want the character to look one way on the 1st player side, but when he jumps over to the 2nd player, to show the other side. Does anyone know how to code this???

Techniques used to code a character like this have been seen on characters such as Gill from Street Fighter 3. It requires double sets of animations, one for each side of the body, then it would use a trigger such as a preset variable to tell the engine which of the two animations to use in each situation.

[drtremor]

I know that already. My question was "does any one know how to code it?" as in, what's the trigger code?

[Infinite Power]

I know that already. My question was "does any one know how to code it?" as in, what's the trigger code?

;this would go in your characters overrides -2

[state -2,facing1]
type=varset
trigger1=facing=1
var(x)=1
[state -2,facing-1]
type=varset
trigger1=facing=-1
var(x)=2

x= whatever var you want to use.

so if you were to put a new move in your command for player facing one way it would look like this.

[State -1, move]
type = ChangeState
value = xxxx
triggerall = var(x)=1; or facing the other side-; var(x)=2
triggerall = command = "movename"
triggerall = statetype != A
trigger1 = ctrl

[Acey]

I know that already. My question was "does any one know how to code it?" as in, what's the trigger code?

Of course you knew that. I just threw together a tutorial that may be of some use to you:

Two Sided Character Tutorial

[Acey]

[State -1, move]
type = ChangeState
value = xxxx
triggerall = var(x)=1; or facing the other side-; var(x)=2
triggerall = command = "movename"
triggerall = statetype != A
trigger1 = ctrl

I wouldn't recommend a changestate though because it would require having 2 statedefs for ever single move in the character.

[drtremor]

Where's the tutorial. I couldn't find it. 

[shootYr.]

How could you not find it when it's in a hyperlink 2 posts above yours?

[ExeLord]

2drtremor: Click on "Two Sided Character Tutorial" in Acey's post or this one.

[drtremor]

Lol. Sorry, I didn't know it was a link. I thought were telling me what to search. Thanx guys.

[Infinite Power]

I wouldn't recommend a changestate though because it would require having 2 statedefs for ever single move in the character.

well  I was just giving a way to be done you could just use the same changestate in the CMD and use Ifelse(var(x)=1,xxxx,yyyy) in the statedef for the anims and hitdef. 

[Acey]

Lol. Sorry, I didn't know it was a link. I thought were telling me what to search. Thanx guys.

And if you have any other questions as you get deeper into the process feel free to post them here.

@ Reezy, very good point.

[drtremor]

@ Acey
The tutorial says this:

As you can see, the "ifselse" code says that if the character is facing left use animation 10200, otherwise use animation 200. Do this for all the state defs in your char's CNS files but the really tricky one's will be in the common1.cns file because they don't have the normal "anim" line of code.

But it doesn't explain how to code the common.cns

[Acey]

@ Acey
The tutorial says this:

As you can see, the "ifselse" code says that if the character is facing left use animation 10200, otherwise use animation 200. Do this for all the state defs in your char's CNS files but the really tricky one's will be in the common1.cns file because they don't have the normal "anim" line of code.

But it doesn't explain how to code the common.cns

Read the section called "common1.cns"

You need to do the process, then it will all make sense.

[O Ilusionista]

on Mugen 1.0, coding Gill  (or any other char who have two different colors) is way easier. You just make him change the palette based on his facing. No need to double the sprites