From 1a2cf43290b29aafe57cbfc2dd776a3c15a59e20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marko Lindqvist Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2026 10:11:11 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 64/64] README.graphics: Add a word about animations See RM #1899 Signed-off-by: Marko Lindqvist --- doc/README.graphics | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/README.graphics b/doc/README.graphics index bc7385413c..5344fb2b9d 100644 --- a/doc/README.graphics +++ b/doc/README.graphics @@ -372,6 +372,22 @@ graphics. (The basic size may vary, as specified in the top-level tilespec file, but the individual tiles should be consistent with those sizes and/or the usage of those graphics.) +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Animations +---------- + +Some 'sprites' listed in the following section are actually animations. +Work to turn single sprite support to animation support is ongoing. +You can't have animation where a single sprite is expected, nor can +you have a single sprite tag where animation is expected. +However, you can of course have a single frame animation that acts +exactly as a single sprite. +Animations consist of tags suffixed with ":" +The very first frame (":0") is needed for the animation to exist +at all - if the animation is mandatory, the client will refuse +to start without that tag. More frame tags (":1", ":2" ...) can be +added at will, and the animation will be shown accordingly. + ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sprites ------- -- 2.51.0