Topic: animation_directory not working with addons?

I am trying to make a new add-on with some new immovables and whenever i try to use animation_directory = … the editor fails to start with this errormessage:

[00:00:01.702 real] ERROR:   FATAL EXCEPTION in editor: [/home/kaputtnik/Quellcode/widelands-repo/widelands/src/scripting/lua_errors.cc:21] Error loading animation 'idle' for map object 'hilltop_01': Animation in directory 'addons/hilltops.wad/world/hilltop_01/' with basename 'idle' has no images for mandatory scale '1' in mipmap - supported scales are: 0.5, 1, 2, 4
[00:00:01.702 real] ERROR: stack traceback:
[00:00:01.702 real] ERROR:      [string "addons/hilltops.wad/world/hilltop_01/init.lua..."]:5: in main chunk

The corresponding file looks like this:

push_textdomain("hilltops.wad", true)

local dirname = path.dirname(__file__)

wl.Descriptions():new_immovable_type{
   name = "hilltop_01",
   descname = _("Hilltop 1"),
   size = "big",
   programs = {},
   animation_directory = dirname,
   animations = {
      idle = {
         -- pictures = path.list_files(dirname .. "hilltop_01.png"),
         hotspot = { 18, 49 },
      },
   }
}

pop_textdomain()

Using the old (deprecated) syntax pictures = … works.

Or am i doing something wrong?

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from the code provided you want to use the PNG "hilltop_01.png" for the animation idle. so you need to specify the basename (basename = "hilltop") in the definition of the idle animation. maybe you need to rename hilltop_01 to hilltop_1 as the code expects images with the suffixes _0.5, _1, _2 and _4.

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Now i can't get an animation to work:

There are 4 files called idle_1.png to idle_4.png. Lua file:

push_textdomain("hilltops.wad", true)

local dirname = path.dirname(__file__)
wl.Descriptions():new_immovable_type{
   name = "waterfall",
   descname = _ "Waterfall",
   size = "big",
   programs = {},
   animation_directory = dirname,
   animations = {
      idle = {
         --pictures = path.list_files(dirname .. "waterfall_??.png"),
         hotspot = { 64, 88 },
         fps = 10,
      }
   }
}
pop_textdomain()

Error:

FATAL EXCEPTION in editor: [/home/kaputtnik/Quellcode/widelands-repo/widelands/src/scripting/lua_errors.cc:21] Error loading animation 'idle' for map object 'waterfall': Animation with one picture addons/hilltops.wad/world/waterfall//idle_4.png must not have 'fps'

Instead of fps = i have also tried to use "animate=idle duration:500ms" but with no success.

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hessenfarmer wrote:

it seems we still may have a misunderstanding here.

I thought you would like to use a still picture aniumation with only 1 file.

No, not a misunderstanding. There are some immovables with only one image and another which is animated.

the suffixes _0.5 to _4 are referring to a scale and not a sequence and we only use file animations for single image anims. However if you want to use them you need to rename again ( I assume your sequence is all at scale 1) to idle_1_00.png to idle_1_03.png.

Ahh Thanks a lot, now i got it to work.
Is this documented some where? Couldn't find such

you may look at our test file at file animation test repo to get the full syntax.

Maybe a wiki article "Addons Immovables" would be better than digging into the source code?

But as file animations are kind of deprecated I strongly recommend to generate the proper spritesheet animation after you got the addon working.

Yes, of course. After finishing the add-on.

Thanks again

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kaputtnik wrote:

Ahh Thanks a lot, now i got it to work.
Is this documented some where? Couldn't find such

see https://www.widelands.org/documentation/animations/#file-animations

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