Animate bug?

ID:2153020
 
Sep 28 2016, 10:30 am (Edited on Sep 28 2016, 11:00 am)
Code:
obj
    BloodParticles
        icon='Effects.dmi'
        icon_state="blood"
        New()
            ..()
            Dissapate(100,1)
atom
    proc
        Dissapate(t,delete)
            set waitfor=FALSE
            animate(src,alpha=100,time=300)
            if(delete)
                sleep(t)
                del(src)


Problem description:
I have this code start on all the blood particles. Instead of slowly changing their alpha,it instantly changes their alpha.

But when I do something like this
            animate(src)
            animate(alpha=100,time=300)


It works fine but occasionally will turn the players mob alpha which is weird cuz I don't have any code that runs this on the player mob.

The animate is actually suppose to transition to 0 alpha and the animate time is suppose to be set to t, but I changed it to demonstrate the code otherwise the particles would instantly go fully alpha, and time was set manually to clarify its not working correctly.
Sep 28 2016, 11:02 am
No problem on my side.


Code:

mob
    clone
        New()
            Dissapate(100, 1)
            . = ..()


and

atom
    proc
        Dissapate(t,delete)
            set waitfor=FALSE
            animate(src, alpha = 0, time=100)
            if(delete)
                sleep(t)
                del(src)
Sep 28 2016, 11:21 am
lol.. okay. Theres an animate running when the blood translate to position which halts the previous animation I assume.
Sep 28 2016, 4:09 pm
Use the ANIMATION_PARALLEL flag in the animate proc.
Sep 28 2016, 7:21 pm
yeah... I got to wait to stable release.
Sep 30 2016, 5:17 am
 
var/angle = whatever
var/speed = whatever
var/px = speed * cos(angle)
var/py = -speed * sin(angle)

animate(src, pixel_x = px, pixel_y = py, alpha = 0, time = 100)


Or you could write 1 animate for both the pixel offsets and the alpha transition.

You should also soft del your particles and not call del on them. Just set their loc to null, that'll do the trick.