Animation Explanation 2.0 Hi, everyone! Jaxon, another miiverse poster and programmer, recommend putting some of my explanation into the program itself. I learned a bit more about animation along the way and updated my explanation accordingly. You can see the public key in the screenshot. BTY, can you still download a program if I take it off my cloud folder? Thanks! Happy animating!

you cant download if its off the cloud folder... .-.

Thanks, Gad! I think I'll take down the first program in a week or so.

I'll leave ANIM_EXPLAIN2 on for a while. When I fill up my cloud folder space though, I will probably take it down. But that is a long time in the future.

if you want to save space you can put programs in one folder

Good idea, Gad. Thanks!

This is pretty cool. I have a few comments, though. 1- disable "wrap text" in the options and break the lines yourself. 2- you should give examples of animation using labels containing DATA. They're easier to visualize and understand then arrays, I think. 3- The "UV" animation target uses the coordinates to the sprite image in the graphic page (GRP).

take a look: ACLS SPSET 0,304,208,16,16 SPSCALE 0,2,2 SPOFS 0,180,120 WAIT 60 SPANM 0,"UV","@CAT_ANIM",10 @CAT_ANIM DATA 4 DATA 10,256,208 DATA 10,272,208 DATA 10,256,208 DATA 10,288,208 END

Hi, Pirate! Thanks for the help! The only problem is I don't know how the DATA command works. Could you please explain it to me? I'd really appreciate it.

It's used to store numeric or string values just like one dimensional arrays, but packed into a label. In my example I used several DATA commands but I could also use a single one. It's just easier to read like that. You can even read a DATA label into an array with the COPY command. DIM TARRAY COPY TARRAY, @DATALABEL" ? TARRAY[2] @DATALABEL DATA 100 DATA 200,300 END

oops, the first line should be DIM TARRAY[3]

Thanks!

Is smilebasic lile MS-DOS?

Ummm. I don't know what that is. Could you please explain? Maybe then I can answer. Thanks!

no

@Caesar it was a text only os before gui based oses came out in 1980 something

Oh. Okay. Thanks, Gad!

like here is a example of some of the commands CLS - Clears Screen CD - Change Directory MD - Make Directory or you could look it up on the internet

DIRECT mode is kinda like MS-DOS, hehe

Cool. Thanks, guys!