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Corbin: /* Examples */

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‎Examples

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__NOTOC__
=Animations=

'''Stored in the anims.ddf file or in the DDFANIM data lump.'''

Anims.ddf allows you to change floor and ceiling animation or wall animation sequences. Each entry consists of a unique name, enclosed in square brackets, plus a series of commands that specify the first and last frames of the animation, as well as how frequently it changes.

Names should be descriptive, but are used in the map editor when adding animations to your maps, so should be no longer than 8 characters (without spaces).

You can add your own graphics, but they need to be defined in [[DDFIMAGE]] before they can be used properly.

==COMMANDS==

The commands used for animation entries are as follows:

<TABLE BORDER=1 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=2 BGCOLOR="#C8F4FF">
<TR><TH>COMMAND</TH><TH>TYPE</TH><TH>EXPLANATION</TH></TR>

<TR><TD>TYPE</TD><TD>[special] </TD><TD>
Either 'FLAT' for a floor texture animation, or 'TEXTURE' for a wall texture animation.</TD></TR>

<TR><TD>FIRST</TD><TD>[string]</TD><TD>
The first texture in the animation -- Refer to name of entry in wadfile.</TD></TR>

<TR><TD>LAST</TD><TD>[string]</TD><TD>
The last texture in the animation -- Refer to name of entry in wadfile.</TD></TR>

<TR><TD>SPEED</TD><TD>[time] </TD><TD>
The time to display each frame in tics(T). Where 8T is normal Doom speed and 4T is double normal speed.</TD></TR>

<TR><TD>SEQUENCE</TD><TD>[string] </TD><TD>
Use it to specify the full animation sequence. Names cannot be used twice. For example: SEQUENCE = TEX1, TEX2, TEX3, TEX5, TEX8;
</TD></TR>

</TABLE>

=NOTES=
The full animation sequence consists of all the flats / textures in the WAD file between the first and last entry.

You should make sure that you don't muddle up your entries in the wad:

'''Correct Order:'''
*MYANIMA
*MYANIMB
*MYANIMC

'''Incorrect Order:'''
*MYANIMB
*MYANIMA
*MYANIMC

If you don't do your flats/ textures properly, 3DGE will give you an error message.

You can also use quotes around names with an underscore in it: 

<PRE> [MY_ANIM]
TYPE = FLAT;
FIRST = "MY_AN_1";
LAST = "MY_AN_2";
SPEED = 8T;</PRE>

If you leave out the quotes, DDF converts an underscore to a space, so the
name MY_AN_1 would be read as "MY AN 1". The other obvious solution is to
never use an underscore in texture names you plan on animating.

=Examples=

The following are examples of complete animation entries:

<TABLE WIDTH=95% BORDER=1 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=3 FRAME="box" BGCOLOR="#C2D6D6" >
<TR><TD>

[NUKAGE1] 
TYPE = FLAT; // floor or ceiling animation 
FIRST = "NUKAGE1"; 
LAST = "NUKAGE3"; 
SPEED = 8T; 


[WALL_BLUE] 
TYPE = TEXTURE; // wall animation 
FIRST = "TEXTURE1"; 
LAST = "TEXTURE3"; 
SPEED = 8T;

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 '''Stored in the anims.ddf file or in the DDFANIM data lump.'''
-Anims.ddf allows you to change floor and ceiling animation or wall animation sequences. Each entry consists of a unique name, enclosed in square brackets, plus a series of commands that specify the first and last frames of the animation, as well as how frequently it changes.
+Anims.ddf allows you to change floor and ceiling animations, wall animation sequences, or even graphic animations. Each entry consists of a unique name, enclosed in square brackets, plus a series of commands that specify the first and last frames of the animation, as well as how frequently it changes.
 Names should be descriptive, but are used in the map editor when adding animations to your maps, so should be no longer than 8 characters (without spaces).
@@ Line 14: / Line 14: @@
 The commands used for animation entries are as follows:
-{|  BORDER=1 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=2 BGCOLOR="#C8F4FF"
+{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#C8F4FF"
 ! <B>COMMAND</B>
 ! <B>TYPE</B>
@@ Line 44: / Line 44: @@
 Use it to specify the full animation sequence.  Names cannot be used twice.  <br>For example: SEQUENCE = TEX1, TEX2, TEX3, TEX5, TEX8;
 |}
 =NOTES=
@@ Line 61: / Line 60: @@
 *MYANIMC
-If you don't do your flats/ textures properly, 3DGE will give you an error message.
+If you don't do your flats/ textures properly, EDGE might give you an error message.
 You can also use quotes around names with an underscore in it:<BR>
-<PRE>	[MY_ANIM]
+<pre>	[MY_ANIM]
          TYPE  = FLAT;
 	FIRST = "MY_AN_1";
 	LAST  = "MY_AN_2";
-	SPEED = 8T;</PRE>
+	SPEED = 8T;</pre>
 If you leave out the quotes, DDF converts an underscore to a space, so the
@@ Line 78: / Line 77: @@
 =Examples=
-{| width="95%" border="1" frame="box" cellpadding="2" frame="box" BGCOLOR="#FFE4B5"
+{| width="95%" border="1" frame="box" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FFE4B5"
 | <font size="2"> //Flat Animation Entry <br />[NUKAGE1] <br />TYPE = FLAT; <br />FIRST= "NUKAGE1"; <br />LAST = "NUKAGE3"; <br />SPEED=8t; </font>
 |}
-{| width="95%" border="1" frame="box" cellpadding="2" frame="box" BGCOLOR="#FFE4B5"
+{| width="95%" border="1" frame="box" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FFE4B5"
 | <font size="2"> //Texture Animation Entry <br />[BLODGR1] <br />TYPE = TEXTURE; <br />FIRST= "BLODGR1"; <br />LAST = "BLODGR4"; <br />SPEED=8t; </font>
 |}
 {{DDF}}

@@ Line 8: / Line 8: @@
 Names should be descriptive, but are used in the map editor when adding animations to your maps, so should be no longer than 8 characters (without spaces).
-You can add your own graphics, but they need to be defined in [[DDFIMAGE]] before they can be used properly.
+<div style="background: #f2e0ce; border: 2px solid #bfb1a3; padding: 0.6em; margin-top: 0.8em;">You can add your own graphics, but they need to be defined in [[IMAGES|DDFIMAGE]] before they can be used properly.</div>
 ==COMMANDS==
@@ Line 78: / Line 78: @@
 =Examples=
-{| width="95%" border="1" frame="box" cellpadding="2" frame="box" BGCOLOR="#C2D6D6"
+{| width="95%" border="1" frame="box" cellpadding="2" frame="box" BGCOLOR="#FFE4B5"
 | <font size="2"> //Flat Animation Entry <br />[NUKAGE1] <br />TYPE = FLAT; <br />FIRST= "NUKAGE1"; <br />LAST = "NUKAGE3"; <br />SPEED=8t; </font>
 |}
-{| width="95%" border="1" frame="box" cellpadding="2" frame="box" BGCOLOR="#C2D6D6"
+{| width="95%" border="1" frame="box" cellpadding="2" frame="box" BGCOLOR="#FFE4B5"
 | <font size="2"> //Texture Animation Entry <br />[BLODGR1] <br />TYPE = TEXTURE; <br />FIRST= "BLODGR1"; <br />LAST = "BLODGR4"; <br />SPEED=8t; </font>
 |}

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	SPEED = 8T;<BR>		SPEED = 8T;<BR>
	</BR></P>		</BR></P>
		+
		+
		+
		+	{{DDF}}

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 LAST  = "TEXTURE3";<BR>
 SPEED = 8T;<BR>
+</BR></P>

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	LAST = "TEXTURE3";<BR>		LAST = "TEXTURE3";<BR>
	SPEED = 8T;<BR>		SPEED = 8T;<BR>
		+
		+	{{DDF}}

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 The commands used for animation entries are as follows:
-<TABLE BORDER=1 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=2 BGCOLOR="#C8F4FF">
+{|  BORDER=1 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=2 BGCOLOR="#C8F4FF"
-<TR><TH><B>COMMAND</B></TH><TH><B>TYPE</B></TH><TH><B>EXPLANATION</B></TH></TR>
+! <B>COMMAND</B>
+! <B>TYPE</B>
-<TR><TD>TYPE</TD><TD>[special] </TD><TD>
+! <B>EXPLANATION</B>
-Either 'FLAT' for a floor texture animation, or 'TEXTURE' for a wall texture animation.</TD></TR>
+|-
+| TYPE
-<TR><TD>FIRST</TD><TD>[string]</TD><TD>
+| [special]
-The first texture in the animation -- Refer to name of entry in wadfile.</TD></TR>
 Either 'FLAT' for a floor texture animation, or 'TEXTURE' for a wall texture animation.
-<TR><TD>LAST</TD><TD>[string]</TD><TD>
+|-
-The last texture in the animation -- Refer to name of entry in wadfile.</TD></TR>
+| FIRST
+| [string]
-<TR><TD>SPEED</TD><TD>[time] </TD><TD>
-The time to display each frame in tics(T). Where 8T is normal Doom speed and 4T is double normal speed.</TD></TR>
+The first texture in the animation -- Refer to name of entry in wadfile.
+|-
-<TR><TD>SEQUENCE</TD><TD>[string] </TD><TD>
+| LAST
 Use it to specify the full animation sequence.  Names cannot be used twice.  <br>For example: SEQUENCE = TEX1, TEX2, TEX3, TEX5, TEX8;
-</TD></TR>
+|}
@@ Line 69: / Line 78: @@
 =Examples=
-The following are examples of complete animation entries:
+{| width="95%" border="1" frame="box" cellpadding="2" frame="box" BGCOLOR="#C2D6D6"
-<TABLE WIDTH=95% BORDER=1 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=3 FRAME="box" BGCOLOR="#C2D6D6" >
+{| width="95%" border="1" frame="box" cellpadding="2" frame="box" BGCOLOR="#C2D6D6"
-<TR><TD>
+| <font size="2"> //Texture Animation Entry <br />[BLODGR1] <br />TYPE = TEXTURE; <br />FIRST= "BLODGR1"; <br />LAST = "BLODGR4"; <br />SPEED=8t; </font>
-<FONT SIZE=2>
+|}
 {{DDF}}