Area animation fields

[Guest avenger_work]

Someone might want to check the area animation fields.

I think there is a field for transparency (alpha level)

Iirc, 0x2a

[Avenger]

Ok, since everyone is lazy, I had to do this:

 

0x0038 2 (word) Unknown

0x003a 2 (word) Transparency (255 equals invisible)

0x003c 2 (word) Starting frame (0 equals random, synchronised draw will clear it)

0x003e 1 (byte) Chance of looping (0 will default to 100)

0x003f 1 (byte) Skip cycles

0x0040 8 (resref) Palette

0x0048 4 (dword) Unknown, unused

 

 

0x0038 is an interesting field, it could be another percentile value, but i couldn't discover its meaning.

 

Note, most likely these fields exist only in SoA/ToB

 

You will see how transparency works if you set it to a middle value, like 128.

Skip cycles shows best with 1 or 2 and a medium long frame count.

Chance of looping is quite noticeable with a value of 15-50.

 

Extreme values will render the animation invisible or immobile for a long time.

[igi]

Cheers for the info Avenger