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viewport labels allow real names now (do the same for images?)
JdGordon:
--- Quote from: Llorean on August 02, 2010, 10:27:39 AM ---I wasn't really thinking like subline animations.
Rather, for example, volume more or less returns a value on Player X between -80 and 0 (just as example numbers).
So if you gave it a four frame image, and then "volume" as the tag to use, and put it inside the "volume is changing conditional" as you adjusted volume you'd cycle through those four frames continually, moving upward or downward in line with the rate you were changing volume. This would mean that it wouldn't be "a frame every 2 seconds" or whatever, but rather "a frame every time the volume level changes" to match activity (something similar could be done for, say, fast forward such as the tape wheels on the tape animation spinning in a rate in line with the seconds position in the song, so as FF accelerates, the wheels spin faster).
Just an idea though. Still not sure if I'm quite explaining it clearly. But basically, use the existing value tags like location in the song or volume as the index, but modulo it the number of frames so that you constantly cycle through a shorter fixed animation at a rate equal to change. It adds some feel of interactivity beyond what we have now.
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My initial thought is probably a no to that. The counter tag would be able to do the same thing and it wouldnt need special extra support code to make it work (right now the volume tag is handled in 3 different ways, I dont really want to add another :) )
[St.]: you misunderstood the post you quoted :) %xx would be a tag which counts, completly seperate from the %xd() tag.
Seani: frankly the bin/ram delta would be tiny and the needed cpu time would arguably be smaller with this change anyway.
JdGordon:
for those that care %xd has now been changed to do pretty much everything I outlined in the first post (i think).
If you want to you can use a full label name, and another tag or number to specify the subimage to draw.
I couldnt be bothered with the hassle of breaking themes so the old way still works.
epithetless:
--- Quote from: JdGordon on August 14, 2010, 07:44:18 AM ---I couldnt be bothered with the hassle of breaking themes so the old way still works.
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Thank you for that.
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