[done] animating in a tile-set

[ElimiNator]

I thought there was now a way to have objects animating in a tile-set?

Can someone explain how its done?

[softcoder]

Just added this in svn. To indicate a model should be animated:

<model path="models/copter_sit.g3d" anim-speed="190"/>

[Ishmaru]

Hey that's great news! animated tilesets have been in a feature request for a long time!

[wciow]

Hey that's great news!

Agreed, I will definitely be using this in my upcoming tilesets 

[victorj]

Oh animation of the tileset, this is a great thing, we have trees that move?

[Mr War]

this will be great for underwater tile sets - shoals of fish

[Mr War]

If it's an easy add, would be cool to allow multiple animations in tile set, as per unit skills.

[Omega]

If it's an easy add, would be cool to allow multiple animations in tile set, as per unit skills.

You should already be able to. Use multiple model tags, each with its own anim-speed attribute.

[victorj]

this will be great for underwater tile sets - shoals of fish

Could have fish and birds in tileset...?

[Omega]

this will be great for underwater tile sets - shoals of fish

Could have fish and birds in tileset...?

Well, hypothetically. If a tileset object was replaced with a model of fish, it would technically work, but only on maps made specifically with that tileset in mind, otherwise the object would likely appear in places it shouldn't (such as fish on land). Birds would be a bit easier I guess, you could have a model have an animated bird appear as well (for example, one of the tree models could also have animated birds, which could be given a large animation to have them appear to fly around the map. However, if that tree appears too often, there'd appear to be way too many birds. Not to mention they'd be all over the place, all flying the same "strokes" (if in random rotations). Not sure if you'd be able to see the bird if the cell the object is on is outside of the camera.

So to answer your question, yes, it's possible, but wouldn't really work that well, so I wouldn't say this is the "solution".

[Ishmaru]

Would be better as more stationary animals like grazing cattle, swans/gease in water etc, or rowboats + windmills.

[will]

We need a gaia fraction to do animals well

[ElimiNator]

Would be better as more stationary animals like grazing cattle, swans/gease in water etc, or rowboats + windmills.

All this could work, but it would look dumb if there stood a cow, in your way, AND YOU COULDN'T KILL IT!

Best thing would be a sort of faction build into the tile-set, and animals could spawn randomly in the map (Number specified by mapper).

[-Archmage-]

Glestimals, anyone?

[Ishmaru]

Would be better as more stationary animals like grazing cattle, swans/gease in water etc, or rowboats + windmills.

All this could work, but it would look dumb if there stood a cow, in your way, AND YOU COULDN'T KILL IT!

Best thing would be a sort of faction build into the tile-set, and animals could spawn randomly in the map (Number specified by mapper).

I was meaning it as a tempory thing before proper tileset creeps were added.

[will]

some animals can fit in a tileset; nemo floating in and out of a sea anemone, for example

[wciow]

Glestimals, anyone?

Well now that neutral factions in scenarios are possible you can add random Glestimals to a scenario map. If you turn off the AI and give them a simple stop/move/die XML they will run or fly away when spotted.

[MuwuM]

basically a good idea, but we'd need a new neutral faction, that is neighter visible all-time nor uses a faction-slot

[ElimiNator]

Did you know that MG added support for multiplayer scenarios?

And maybe not a neutral faction, what I I want bears or lions?

[Ishmaru]

basically a good idea, but we'd need a new neutral faction, that is neighter visible all-time nor uses a faction-slot

I don't know if the faction idea is the best way for this since as u said it will need to be hidden and somehow not take up a slot. But also factions have an alliance to a number and if the number is not same then ai will hunt all animals as they are considered "hostile faction" all nutral abimals wpuld be killed off in the first few minutes. Somehow ai will have to be programed to understand the concept of neutral.

Perhapse it should be coded as a randomly placed tileset unit. As then the creatures would be based on the tileset. Like aliens on moon tileset, fish in water tileset, and refugees in annex's tilesets.
Either way nutral creeps should be customizeable