Request: More frames and delay for BG tiles

[GregoryMcGregerson]

Sprites have the feature to add as many frames as you want and determine the speed at which it plays. BG tiles need the same thing. The default of 3 frames isn't really enough for some animations. An example; ocean waves hitting the shore need more then 3 frames to look realistic. FSA for the Gamecube uses 8 frames of animation for this.

[Diarandor]

Could this feature be implemented for the version 1.5 or 1.6?

[christopho]

I think we can do this for 1.6. Most work will be in the GUI of the editor. The format of data files will probably remain compatible, because it was designed from the beginning with this possible evolution.

[Diarandor]

Ok, thanks for the info! I guess that you won't have any compatibility problem if you keep the current properties as the default ones after the change, as you say.

[Diarandor]

For these features, it would be very useful to add something to play the animation of the tiles (like in the sprite Editor), so that we can see if the speed is the one we want, etc.

[christopho]

So the idea is to allow to customize

• The number of frames
• The frame delay
• Mirror loop (previously called 1-2-3-1 / 1-2-3-2-1)
• Vertical of Horizontal in the tileset PNG file

And we want a preview widget like in the sprite editor. Also it would be nice if tiles are animated in the tileset editor's list view and it the map editor. (Then maybe we don't actually need a preview widget.)

After some thinking we decided not to unify sprites and animated tiles, because there is no good way to do it and animated tiles don't need animations and directions.

[Diarandor]

There will be customization for the number of rows/columns? Just to know.

[christopho]

Only horizontal or vertical I think.

[Diarandor]

Ok. Then I will have to rearrange my tilesets. No problem.