Ripping code off isn't going to help you learn. Maybe you should ask more specific questions about your problems and maybe someone here will be able to help understand a solution.

do you know how to animate your character while they are not moving? If no, 2D animations can be real simple.

1: store a series of sprite in an array (std::vector or std::list are good choices), make sure you store them in order.

2: Then you have a frame variable that tells you what index in the array to use for drawing your sprites.

3: you just need another bool to tell you whether the character is being animated or not, if it is use the animation sprites if not use the normal ones.



You can use a state variable to tell what the character is doing, a simple enum would do the trick


By checking the characters state you can tell wich animation you should be displaying. hopefully that helps.

Quote:Original post by The_Game
That should help. If I'm not mistaken, I should then map each particular animation to a direction button so that when they press it it loops through the animation.

Now another step I'm having trouble with is getting each of the pics for the animations inside the frame (if I'm saying that right). The issue is that all the pics don't divide up evenly like they did when I was learning this back in college. Some are longer than others and some are taller. Is there any way around painstakenly cropping every single one to the exact right size? Because I've got like 50 images or maybe more.

I believe super street fighter II and the original mortal combat did it this way, and I'm come to adopt it. I don't think of the sprites position being the upper left corner, I make my position be the center of the sprite.

so say My sprite is at position 100x100, and it's size is 50x50, that would mean the upper left corner is at 75x75.

x1 = xposition - width / 2;

Then you just need to keep a list of the sizes and uv coordinates of your frames, try making a simple struct for this.