Animated Icons

[Vlue 271]

Animated Icons v1.0
By Vlue

Introduction
This script lets you set up animated icons using 'frames' of icons from an icon set. Wowie!
Of course you'll need to provide your own animations... but I do have a couple (five) for you
to peruse at least, which are already set up for use by default in the script.
Iconset - http://i.imgur.com/VVxxiq3.png

Features
- Animated Icons, yeesh.

Screenshots

How to Use
Make animated Icons, set animated icons, ???, Profit.

Script
Pastebinz: http://pastebin.com/KPEbELjW

Credit and Thanks
- By Vlue
- Free to use in any project, commercial or otherwise, with credit given

Author's Notes
Just going to...

[+ LadyMinerva 998]

Ahhh very nice, this one somehow reminds me of Dragon Quest IX where these weapons have an animated 5 star rarity.

I'll be sure to try this one out. In the meantime, it's time to make some animated weapons! 

[Coolie 148]

This works perfectly everywhere that I've used it except Victor Engine Target Arrow. The help window that shows what enemy you are targeting (and their status icons) refreshes blank after about a second).

[yoshine 7]

Imma check if this works with battle symphony later

(cough cough THAT would be some intense shit)

[ihartrpgs 148]

Wow, this looks amazing! I haven't even thought of having animated icons, but after seeing the video, it's a must-have for my game.

[MidnightWolfie 0]

Very nice, thank you very much for this!

[Demintika 63]

Suggest in scripting:

1) Turning off @icons when refresh.

alias whatever_refresh refresh
def refresh
  @icons = false
  whatever_refresh
end

The improvement is barely noticeable but still better than nothing.

2) Some people has aliased draw_icon too, line 49-50-51 may make this script un-compatible with them.

Those lines are just a copy of default draw_icon, why didn't you just put 

 

1.       animicon_draw_icon(index, x, y, enabled)

instead?

[Vlue 271]

Suggest in scripting:

1) Turning off @icons when refresh.

alias whatever_refresh refresh
def refresh
  @icons = false
  whatever_refresh
end

The improvement is barely noticeable but still better than nothing.

2) Some people has aliased draw_icon too, line 49-50-51 may make this script un-compatible with them.

Those lines are just a copy of default draw_icon, why didn't you just put

•       animicon_draw_icon(index, x, y, enabled)

instead?

 

The @icons variable lets the window know there are animated icons, whether its on or not its still only refreshed after an icon frame change. (Every 10 frames thanks to 'if Graphics.frame_count % 10 == 0')

 

As for the second one... that is a good point. Thanks~

[Euphoria 147]

Damn Vlue, you really need to teach me to script better, and share some ideas!

 

Does this cause any lag at all?

[Vlue 271]

It causes any window that has an animated icon to refresh every 10 frames. Shouldn't be noticeable unless there's some crazy stuff going on in the window.

[Euphoria 147]

Definitely gonna try this one out then!

[JesseO 40]

Thank you so much for this! Such a simple thought and a huge improvement on the system! You are awesome!

 

I'm getting down on animating Icons right now. I'll post a bunch for people to use with your script. I love it!

 

I like how it works with various menu scripts and still animates the icons like PAC Main Menu Ace.

 

I am curious if there is a way to only animate the icons when highlighted/selected?

 

 

 

Here are some animations... I'll Take Requests completely free of charge just ask, but they'll go up here for everyone

http://www.rpgmakervxace.net/topic/26765-animated-icons/

Edited August 29, 2014 by JesseO

[Coolie 148]

EDIT: D'oh! Looks like I already mentioned the compatibility thing before. Sorry!

Edited August 27, 2014 by William C

[mawichan 2]

Is there a way to make this script compatible with Syvkal's Ring Menu? 

I get an error on the ring menu script's line 323

This is what the script section with that line looks like 

 

 

Edited February 6, 2018 by mawichan