Request for plugin creators willing to help me.

[FVI]

Good morning!
I am trying to make a plugin, but i had a problem with coding and I am looking for an experienced plugin creator who can help me.

Thanks for reading.

[Mendel]

Your welcome!

[ArthurJ22]

Well I mean, first you should say what problem you are having, a problem with LUA is not the same as one with Json, or with some syntax or semantics, if u give more detail someone could surely help you...

[FVI]

My problem concerns a night animation not showing up at all although I am sure to have included everything necessary to make it work, and I am working with json.
I will soon post the json.

[ArthurJ22]

If you do not get any code errors, it is most likely that you are simply not aligning the night animation in X, Y.

I'll leave this here for reference:



Another option would be to use the Animation Dev. Tool by ian

[FVI]

I already tried with that, but unfortunately that doesn't work, the animation just doesn't show up. Maybe that could actually be the reason, but I have no reference points to start from, so I don't know how much to move X and Y at all. Plus mine is an animation with a complex texture, so unfortunately I can't even use the Animation Dev Tool...

By the way this is the code

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[
    {
"id": "$nightanimation1234",
"type": "animation",
"light": true,
"light switching": "true",
"frames": [
{
"bmp": "Cefal1 NA.png",
"count": 1,
"h": 4,
"w": 4
}
],
"rotation aware": 
false}, 
  {
    "id": "$c.religion.2024-04-17-18:46",
    "author": "FVI",
    "meta": {
      "pca": {
        "version": "4.3.0"
      }
    },
    "frames": [
      {
        "bmp": "Cefal.png"
      }
    ],
    "influence religion": 100,
    "animation": [{"id": "$nightanimation1234", "x":0,"y":100}], 
    "width": 4,
    "height": 4,
    "type": "religion"

[ArthurJ22]

Since I don't have those frames, I'll just give an example:

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[{  

    "id":"$example-night-animation-AJ22",
    "type":"animation",
    "light":true,
    "light switching":true,
    "frames": [{"bmp":"Night.png"}]

}, 
  {
    "id": "$example-plugin-AJ22",
    "title": "Example",
    "text": "Example.",
    "author": "ArthurJ22",
    "meta": {
      "pca": {
        "version": "4.3.0"
      }
    },

    "frames": [{"bmp": "Example.png"}],
    "animation": [{
    "id": "$example-night-animation-AJ22", "x": 0, "y": -80
  }],

    "influence religion": 20,
    "width": 4,
    "height": 4,
    "draw ground": true,
    "auto build": false,
    "type": "religion"
  }
]

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{
  "id": "$manifest-5c51dc23-79b2-46e2-b321-0aa5bc1c6647",
  "version": 1,
  "title": "Example",
  "text": "This is an example plugin, please do not publish.",
  "author": "ArthurJ22"
}

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Why Y = -80?

As u can see its exactly as in the guideline, it is simply a matter of marking and knowing where they are supposed to be.

In-game


Btw that's not the only way of night frame, it's just the "easiest" one.

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Regarding ur code, you will already notice that u have Y = 100, being a positive value means that you have sent it under the ground.

[FVI]

I've tried to fix my code following some attributes of yours, but unfortunately it still doesn't work. I do not get why if I put both X and Y as 0, it doesn't automatically overlaps when it's night.
Anyway I could give you the frames if it helps.

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[ArthurJ22]

I've tried to fix my code following some attributes of yours, but unfortunately it still doesn't work. I do not get why if I put both X and Y as 0, it doesn't automatically overlaps when it's night.
Anyway I could give you the frames if it helps.

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You had a few errors in the code, here is the fixed:

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[{  //Animation Type

    "id":"$nightanimation1234",
    "type":"animation",
    "light":true,
    "light switching":true,
    "frames": [{"bmp":"Cefal1 NA.png"}]

}, 
  { //Frame Data
    "id": "$c.religion.2024-04-17-18:46",
    "title": "Example",
    "text": "Example.",
    "author": "FVI",
    "meta": {
      "pca": {
        "version": "4.3.0"
      }
    },
  //Frames + Animation
    "frames": [{"bmp": "Cefal.png"}],
    "animation": [{
    "id": "$nightanimation1234", "x": 0, "y": -128
  }],
  //Tags
    "influence religion": 100,
    "width": 4,
    "height": 4,
    "draw ground": true,
    "auto build": false,
    "type": "religion"
  }
]

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Again, you have to measure, you're not measuring and that's why you're struggling.



That is the measure of why it is -128.

Final result:



It should be noted that you have some "wild" pixels and details that u have not erased in ur night frame that you should fix.

[FVI]

Now I understand what's wrong! Thank you so much @ArthurJ22!