help with animation stage

[xion]

ok so im making a stage can someone tell me how to add  avitars on to a stage and make it move?

[Chuckdurnham]

Well are you wanting to animate 3d models, 2d pictures, or platforms?

I only know that you have to create a character animation under the same brres file. To do so just right click the model data youve got your module under and select new character animation. Preview your module. Open the right tab, the left tab and the bottom tab. The bottom one is how you animate it. Highlight your item and the new character animation youve just made and down below you will see frames. I dont know about animating full 3d things yet but i just know thats how stuff is animated.

[xion]

Cause Im bearly learning how to make 2d's stages and I want to put a bird moving its wings its a dediara sprite

[Chuckdurnham]

If its flapping its wings then you probably have more then one sprite.
Which is a challenge. Im pretty sure there are easier methods but what i do is I put all the sprites I dont need 300 feet above the stage. In the animation I make mabye one of them last for about 20 frames, then shoot that one up to 300 feet at frame 21. Then I take another frame thats up at 300 feet and put it down at frame 21. So really your switching out sprites in mere like nanoseconds. Giving the illusion of animations.

[xion]

but IDK how to do that O_o

[Chuckdurnham]

lets do this one step at a time then.
Do you have More then one sprite?

[(specter)]

If its flapping its wings then you probably have more then one sprite.
Which is a challenge. Im pretty sure there are easier methods but what i do is I put all the sprites I dont need 300 feet above the stage. In the animation I make mabye one of them last for about 20 frames, then shoot that one up to 300 feet at frame 21. Then I take another frame thats up at 300 feet and put it down at frame 21. So really your switching out sprites in mere like nanoseconds. Giving the illusion of animations.

Why do you do that? If you have unused sprites why not just keep them out of the thing then?

I might be piggy-backing off this thread as I had a thread asking how to animate stages as well, but Mewtwo2000 confused me and scared me away.