TalkAction Animated Emoticons!

[Narzerus]

Fully animated emoticons for your OTServer!

- Knowledge needed:
* Basic compiling (no programming skills whatsoever)
* Knowing how to edit tibia.dat and tibia.spr


The function displays emoticons triggered by talk actions
Example: saying /... would show the dots animation (lower left corner in uploaded preview) over your head.

You will need:
- A Tibia.dat editor (Recommended NoxItems)
- A Tibia.spr editor (Recommended Noxitu spr editor)
- A working c++ compiler (Devcpp etc.)



Step 1 (Adding the sprites):
- Open your Tibia.spr editor and add all the animations (they MUST be 64x64 divided in 4 different 32x32 sprites)
- Add an empty sprite (a 32x32 sprite fully colored in 255,0,255 RGB which is Tibia's transparent color)

Step 2 (Adding the animations)
- Open your Tibia.dat
- Add the animations in 64x64 format, the sprite must be on the most upper right corner
- You must use the empty sprite to fill the empty spaces on your 64x64 animation.
- If the animation is too short repeat it so it is 10 frames long

Step 3 (Compiling new animations)
- Open the source code of your OTServer and search for "MAGIC_EFFECT"
- Select any line that shows MAGIC_EFFECT_[ANYTHING]=[HEX]
- Add your new animations to the list and their respective new HEX values (use a converter to know the values)
- Replace MAGIC_EFFECT_LAST = MAGIX_EFFECT_[ANYTHING] for your last magic effect
*Ex:

MAGIC_EFFECT_SLASH2		= 0x46, //70
	MAGIC_EFFECT_EMOXX		= 0x47, //71
	MAGIC_EFFECT_EMOCRY		= 0x48, //72
	MAGIC_EFFECT_EMODOT		= 0x49, //73
	MAGIC_EFFECT_EMODROP	= 0x4A, //74
	MAGIC_EFFECT_LAST		= MAGIC_EFFECT_EMODROP,

- Search for "|| !canSee(pos)"
- Change the number to your last new animation value (Ex: (type > 74 || !canSee(pos) in my case)
* Ex:

 if(type > 74 || !canSee(pos))
		return;

- Compile

Step 4 (Editing constants)
- Open your constants files (Ex: Server/lib/000-const)
- Add your new animations there and replace CONST_ME_LAST = CONST_ME_[ANYTHING] for your last animation there.
*EX:

   CONST_ME_BATS = 66
CONST_ME_SMOKE = 67
CONST_ME_INSECTS = 68
CONST_ME_SLASH = 69
CONST_ME_SLASH2 = 70
CONST_ME_EMOXX = 71
CONST_ME_EMOCRY = 72
CONST_ME_EMODOT = 73
CONST_ME_EMODROP = 74
CONST_ME_NONE = 255
CONST_ME_LAST = CONST_ME_EMODROP

Step 5 (Adding scripts)
- add to talkactions.xml your emoticons
*Ex:

<talkaction words="/dot" event="script" value="emoticons/dots.lua"/>
<talkaction words="/cry" event="script" value="emoticons/cry.lua"/>

- create a .lua file for every emoticon you add
*Ex:
emoticons/cry.lua:

function onSay(cid, words, param, channel)
	lastemo = getPlayerStorageValue(cid, 3001)
	now = os.time()
	playerpos = getThingPosition(cid)
	if (now - lastemo) >= 2 then
		doSendMagicEffect(playerpos, CONST_ME_EMOCRY)
		setPlayerStorageValue(cid, 3001, now)
	end
	return true
end

emoticons/dots.lua:

function onSay(cid, words, param, channel)
	lastemo = getPlayerStorageValue(cid, 3001)
	now = os.time()
	playerpos = getThingPosition(cid)
	if (now - lastemo) >= 2 then
		doSendMagicEffect(playerpos, CONST_ME_EMODOT)
		setPlayerStorageValue(cid, 3001, now)
	end
	return true
end

- Step 5:
Replace your .dat and .spr files in your Tibia client for the ones you created.





Boilá that's it, you can now use emoticons!



Credits to:
Me (Idea, Scripts, etc)
Ragnarok Online (Because I stole his emoticons)


PD: Long time I haven't been on OTServ developing, this is a gift for you people!

REP++ FTW!

 

[ScorpiOOn93]

Wow nice, I'll test it later and tell if it works

 

[Summ]

Good job.
This could be called "[TUTORIAL] How to add new effects/animations"

 

[Szakal]

looks nice !

 

[Narzerus]

Good job.
This could be called "[TUTORIAL] How to add new effects/animations"

Yeah, it's like both things I guess, i couldn't just post the scripts lol

 

[president vankk]

lol,good job

good idea

 

[Tibiamakers]

this are thing for ragnarok not tibia :/

 

[Narzerus]

this are thing for ragnarok not tibia :/

"Credits to:
Me (Idea, Scripts, etc)
Ragnarok Online (Because I stole his emoticons)"

Yes, that's exactly what I said.

 

[Shinmaru]

@Tibiamakers
dude, don't hate, the guy made a very well explained tutorial.
@Narzerus
Good Job!, Rep++ and Welcome Back, "2007 OTLanders Devision" FTW!!!

 

[hodleo]

yeh, pokemon online

 

[Fark]

it's nice, I like to do these emoticons on ragnarok

 

[Narzerus]

Thanks for the comments people, hope this helps somebody, it's preety cool using them in-game