Lycan ABS - Weapon display

[DerVVulfman]

If you're messing with the regular one (not the paperdoll system)...
Let's assume you have a character. Let's name him... Fred. Why not? I used Freddy Kruger's first movie music in the demo.

Now, you normally have a regular character like 001-Fighter_01.png for your character. Let's give your guy a new character... 'Freddy.png'. It's nothing special. We could use '001-Fighter_01', but that's a mouthful. Easier to just say Freddy.png.

No, it didn't need to be FreddyABS.png. I just used BillABS in the demo.

Now, the configuration system has this in the defaults:

Code:

# Animation Suffixes ----------------------------------------------------------
  SUFFIX_CENTER     = "!"                   # Used for center justified animations
  SUFFIX_MELEE      = "_melee"              # Used for melee attack animations
  SUFFIX_MISSILE    = "_range"              # Used for missile attack animations

and

Code:

# Melee Weapons
#               ID     Range  Mash   Delay     FStart    Kick    Jump    Suffix
# ================     =====  =====  =======   =======   =====   ====    =======            
  MELEE_WEAPONS[34]  = [   2,     3,       3,        1,    nil,   25,   "_sword"]
  MELEE_WEAPONS[5]   = [   2,     1,       3,      nil,    nil,   25,   "_sword"]

Now the 'SUFFIX_MELEE' value is set to '_melee'. That means that any melee attack performed will show with a character drawn with '_melee' tacked on to the end. So if you have a "Freddy_melee.png" made up, it will show for any melee attack performed by Fred. That is... it will show unless you set up special weapons in the MELEE_WEAPONS array.

In the MELEE_WEAPONS array above, you have two weapons defined... Weapons #5 and #34. In these cases, it will use a characterset with the '_sword' suffix tacked to the end.

So you could have defined for your Fred character:
"Freddy.png" for his characterset
"Freddy_melee.png" for any melee attack with no specific melee weapons defined.
"Freddy_sword.png" to be used if a weapon is defined in the MELEE_WEAPONS array.
The filename for the attacks and actions is always based upon the name of the characterset in use (Bill.png -- Bill_melee.png // Bob.png -- Bob_club.png)

System safeguard: If a graphic file is not valid, it will not crash the system. A safeguard in Lycan is that it skips loading missing files rather than crashing as it normally would.