I can understand and read lua and do some basic stuff. I know I can animate sprites via lua. My plan was to use a bunch of checks to see at what time the timer was at and set it to a next frame. Once it hits the end time the timer would reset.

I was wondering if there was a much more efficient way of doing this. Like just have it move frame by frame. Is there a way of doing such a thing?

For what would I need this?

Well from my experience most of the attachables and drop ship parts don't animate with the ini animation mode thing. Only the main part of the actor does. So I'd like to animate these parts, unless I'm doing something wrong of course.

Edit... Oops I think I posted this in the wrong area, sorry

For basic animating, there's an ini code way of doing it, but doesn't work on items that force an animation (limbs, guns). I have no idea if it works for armor attachables, but can't hurt to try.

In Base.rte/Actors/Brains/Brains.ini you can see a working example, in the Brain actor code:

SpriteAnimMode and SpriteAnimDuration are the points of interest.

SpriteAnimDuration is how long (in MS) one animation cycle takes.

SpriteAnimMode determines how the animation works, details below:


If that doesn't work on attachables, you've got the right idea with Lua.

Thanks for the reply and yes I have been playing around with animation modes and only the main body part of the actor works but I guess it would't hurt to double check for bugs on my part.

If it doesn't work, I'll create the script and post it here if anyone else wants to use it. I just hope it's as easy as it sounds in my head

Edit - Welp that's the script I came up with. Pretty simple to be honest.