O_o .. interesting part now, gotta animate the stilllife all around. Its really quite simple, what i did that is:

Assuming all the animations are laid out neatly ina  sprite sheet, we have a table.

With rows and columns, so any algo would read thus:

1.  Get Row of Anim

2. Get Column of Anim

3. Get Anim : Height & Width

4. OnAnimStart() – Load source image from sprite sheet as a rectangle with

Height = Anim Height

Width = Anim Width

Position = (X,Y)   :  (0,0) Initially:

5. For subsequent frames,

increment Position.X by Sprite.Width times

And here’s the code

//Animation variables
protected int currFrame = 0;
protected int currRow = 0;
protected int currFrameSpeed = 0;
protected int animeThreshold = 8;

public Rectangle rectSource;
public Rectangle rectDestination;
/**Animate Sprite**/
if(currRow == 0)
{
if(this.currFrame < 6)
{
this.currFrameSpeed += 1;
if (this.currFrameSpeed == animeThreshold)
{
this.currFrameSpeed = 0;
this.currFrame += 1;
}
}
else
{
this.currFrameSpeed = 0;
this.currFrame = 0;
}
}
else
{
this.currRow = 0;
this.currFrameSpeed = 0;
this.currFrame = 0;
}

rectSource = new Rectangle(currFrame * this.spriteWidth, currRow * this.spriteHeight, this.spriteWidth, this.spriteHeight);
rectDestination = new Rectangle((int)this.position.X, (int)this.position.Y, this.spriteWidth, this.spriteHeight);

Additionally i found the need to control the speed of the animation, this was accomplished by adding a control variable

currFrameSpeed

i kept on incrementing it till it reached a predecided threshold.

Simple ha, of course this is just a simple and ok,ok way of doing it

Woah, its been months since my last post, but hey, LotBM is moving ahead with full steam.

Finally got down to the gruelling task of coding the actual game, and.. well waddayaknow – time to select characters

Dunno, some where between new Character(), i was like, this guy (dont ask me why not gal ) shud be a mage, spellcaster, now, ahaa… ,

“Now introducing .. from the Hogwarts Adult School of  Magic, with a degree in Defence Against the Dark Arts, i a proud to announce – The Speller of Doom” 

**Drumroll**

Now, this fella’s gonna be the yardstick for the rest of em, with common features like:

characterName, characterStatus, etc.. and methods like move(), fight(), interact().

Soon, new character classes to come. Keep watching this space