GANI Scripts accessing strings
 

can they?

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Re: GANI Scripts accessing strings
 

No they can't, only zoom, lighting and all those other effects

*read* strings

? and what is all that about?

No need, just access it directly from the NPC that causes you to have that animation. If it's needed for something in the animation, use it as a parameter.

well, I am making a guy that floats, and I want a shadow to be displayed below the player by reading string "altitude", so yes, maybe a parameter is the best way

Hey! If you want that, you don't need a parameter. Just save the player x and y+3, put a little shadow image there, and then change the player's y- according to the specified altitude, and then have the shadow move along with the player. Is that genius or what?

hey, maybe I want whatever lag there will be to be in synch with the lag of the player? so the altitude won't appear to change when it really isn't

Can't be done yo

yes, the gani does the showimg clientside for each player who sees the gani, so the shadow will always appear to be "in synch" with wherever the player seems to be for each user

i've never really messed with gani scripting but
cant he create a GANI with different frames in and then use a command to over but only show certain frames???
that way he can put the char shadow at different heights in the gani :)

If not then why hasn't it been invented!!!!

i mean a range of frames.
ok lets use the example above
make a hovering Gani 10 frames long. then within that same gani create another one 10 frames long but make the shadow a bit further down, etc etc
obv not a big gani but lets say you do 5 of these.
the rather than using showimg or any other way of doing it you could use a script to play first of ll
0 to 9
then if the altatidu is higher you could oplay
40 to 49
see what i mean?

nothing i dont think i havn't tried scripting with gani's tho so i wouldn't know

Gani scripts can only read things like #Px,
because if they could read normal variables then
you could add script to display the value and
possibly cheat or so

like make your own new ganis?

man thats a solutionless problem...:-/...oh well, no access in ganis...

just make the string a gani parameter I guess, like

setani fly,#s(altitude);

but, can script ganis even access that? Or can they only read permanant things like #P1?

exactly, just used setani ganiname,parameters