Re: Water Elemental updated

[Ronen Tzur <rtzur@shani.net>]

On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, daniel lawrence lapine wrote:

> I did animate the elemental and I do have question- how
> many frames per square? I used 12, and repeated by 4 so that 
> the changes would be more visible, but that was just a guess that
> worked out.

In principle a creature makes eight "steps" from one square to
another, so that's eight frames.  It's ok to have repeating frames
so as to slow the animation, but use symlinks instead of simply
copying the files.  It's faster.

> Also, can I assume that ANY graphic with a .#. in the name can
> use more than 1 frame?

Yes.