Can Rimworld do animations?

[Makani]

Like for buildings and such... is it possible to use an animated graphic?

[mrofa]

No it cant use animated graphic, but with .dll you can do animation per frame.

[Evul]

No it cant use animated graphic, but with .dll you can do animation per frame.

As above yes. :-)

[Rikiki]

You can look at Clutter Hologram lamp or Deepdriller Mobile mineral sonar.
Those mods both have animations.
You change the texture parameters (rotation, scale, material~=texture path, fading) you want in the Tick() function and the Draw() function will reflect that.

[Haplo]

If you want to have an example how it could be done, I'm working on upgrading the .dll example at the moment.
You'll have a wind turbine in there, which uses 12 different frames to animate it.
Give me a few more days and it is ready for presentation

[Makani]

Thanks everyone. Haplo, I'm looking forward to that--your existing example has been really helpful.

While this thread is going, I'm going to try a slight hijack to avoid thread clutter...^^; Two more questions!

How do I get info on amount of sunlight, a la solar panels?
How can I change if something transmits power or not (i.e. switch type things)?

[Haplo]

You can find it in the dll of the Building_PowerPlantSolar:

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            if (!Find.RoofGrid.Roofed(base.Position))
            {
                this.powerComp.powerOutput = Mathf.Lerp(0f, 1700f, SkyManager.curSkyGlowPercent);
            }
            else
            {
                this.powerComp.powerOutput = 0f;
            }


And switch.. I would suggest a peek into my power switch mod
That is not as trivial

[Makani]

Hmm. Pardon my ignorance, I don't normally develop in a .net environment... how are you able to expose the dll's code like that? The best I can get is definitions from the object browsers, at least trying to figure this out on my own...

[mrofa]

Try ILspy

[Makani]

You all are awesome. Thanks very much for your help!

[Haplo]

Personally I like the Telerik JustDecompile better, but that is just personal preference

[skullywag]

I have a local copy of my morepower mod that has the betterpower wind turbine in it (slightly tweaked to my liking) that has the full animation the original artist intended. Ill be releasing it shortly with source code.

[Haplo]

First one
The example project has been updated.
In there you'll find a wind turbine with animations too

[skullywag]

First one
The example project has been updated.
In there you'll find a wind turbine with animations too

Lol

Good job. I've had mine for weeks locally as I do with a lot of stuff I mess with.

Be interested to see if you did it how I did it.

[Haplo]

I'm warning you though that the finished mod wind turbine is a bit more enhanced than what is in the source code..
I've decided to leave a bit of the harder part out, so that the source code is at least a little bit readable for a beginner