Newbie with ambition

[vanpet]

Hi everyone,

I discovered Sludge this week and it looks like it's the tool I need. But with the lack of tutorial and the very brief help file, it's really hard to start with confidence. So I have some questions:

1) by default, in the project manager, the scripts open themselves in Notepad... I tried to change the option to "notepad++" which is my prefered text editor, but it doesn't seem to find it. What kind of path should I write in the option field? Is it a relative or absolute path?

2) same question for all kinds of multimedia file: it's unable to open TGA, WAV and OGG files when I double click on them.

3) I designed sprites for directions left, right up and down... and that's fine. But I want to add more subtle graphics in the game: when the character goes to the right, then suddenly the the left, the change in sprites is too sudden, and it's ugly. Is there a way to put a "turning character" animation in between the two directions to smoothen the transition?

4) thanks for developping this application! (ok that was not a question)

[Trumgottist]

You don't say which OS you're on, but going by your questions, I'm assuming that you're either on Windows or Linux, so I'll let someone else answer questions 1 and 2. (When it comes to the development kit, I mostly know the Mac port.)

3. Not really. You can adjust the speed with which the character is spinning with the setCharacterSpinSpeed() function, but SLUDGE has no hook for displaying a special animation for spinning.

4. You're welcome.

[vanpet]

Thanks for the quick answer!

Yes, I'm on windows vista.

[BigMc]

Hi,

you have to enter the full path in quotes, like

"C:\foo\bar\notepad++.exe"

About the sprites: You can create more sprites, like sprites for walking into the diagonal directions. Then they will be shown in between when spinning.