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[Destral]

Hi folks, it's me again with more noob questions about Game Maker.

Up until now I've been using 4 different animated sprites of 4 frames each for the protagonist to have a walking cycle in each of the four directions, but I'm trying to cut down on the numbers of sprites, and I got to thinking that maybe I could combine all 16 sprites into one sheet and then use GML somehow to cycle through each 4-frame walk cycle within the sprite sheet for each of the four directions. Is this actually possible? And if so, could I possibly get some pointers on how to go about it?

Thanks!

EDIT: Oh! So sorry, I was convinced I was in the Technical forum, not tutorials. Could I possibly get this moved there, mods? Thanks, and sorry! 

[Shiny]

Under those conditions, you could use modulo to wrap the image_index and then offset to whichever sub-animation you wish to play. Not the most flexible solution (all must be the same length), but it lets you roughly adhere to Game Maker's own system, and without much extra work.

Code: (Create event)

// Direction constants.
// Animations should be ordered in sequence according to these.
DIR_UP    = 0;
DIR_DOWN  = 1;
DIR_LEFT  = 2;
DIR_RIGHT = 3;
// Direction that the object is currently facing.
facing = DIR_UP;

Code: (Draw event)

// "4" in this case is the number of frames per sub-animation.
draw_sprite(sprite_index, floor(image_index mod 4) + (facing * 4), x, y);

Keep in mind that, when using this method, image_index cannot be relied on for frame-specific logic unless you perform the modulo again.

[Destral]

That worked beautifully for my purposes, thankyou very much!