I'm trying to change the bmap on a sprite. Here's what I've done. What am I doing wrong? Thanx.

Code:

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bmap testBMAP			=<rooidle_west0000.pcx>;


function changeMap()
{
	my.bmap				=testBMAP;
}

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the bmap for th sprite is also a skin, so you have to use bmap_for_entity to get the bmap pointer to the texture and then you can replace it

I tried using bmap_for_entity, but no luck. Am I doing this right? Or is there a pointer conversion I'm screwing up on?
Code:

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bmap testBMAP			=<rooidle_west0000.pcx>;
bmap* ptr;

function changeBMap()
{
	ptr				=bmap_for_entity(my,0);		
	bmap_unlock(ptr);
	ptr				=testBMAP;
}

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You don't need the bmap_unlock()

Even then, I don't kow if copying the image will work that way.

Here's another idea using bmap_blit() to copy the image:
Code:

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bmap testBMAP = <rooidle_west0000.pcx>;
bmap* ptr;
function changeBMap()
{
	ptr = bmap_for_entity(my,0);
	bmap_blit(ptr, testBMAP, 0, 0);
}

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Well what about the good old "ent_morph(entity, string);" ?

If you have a pointer to your sprite just do something like this:
Code:

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function changeSprite(_ent,_file)
{
  ent_morph(_ent, _file);
}

//call like this:
changeSprite(mySprite_Pointer,"new_bitmap.pcx");

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Not tested but should work.

EDIT:
Now that I've read Scorpion's response I guess that you could give "ent_morphskin(ENTITY* entity, STRING* filename);" a shot too.

yep everyhting should work, if you can change the skin of an entity, you can also change it by a sprite :]

bmap_blit is what I need, but I don't see it in the manual and it doesn't like it in the script editor. Is it in the beta?

The real code looks like this. I'm using a link list in a .dll to push out various BMAPs so I need it to be a bmap and not the name of one.

Code:

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function animNorth_entSprite()
{
	var animRate		=60;
	var numFrames		=0;
	numFrames			=GetNumAnimBMap(my.northKeyIdle);
	var animFrame		=0;
	while(1)
	{
		animFrame		+=GetSeconds();
		if(animFrame>=numFrames)
		{
			animFrame	=0;
		}
		my.bmap			=GetAnimBMap(my.northKeyIdle,int(animFrame));

		my.scale_x			=1;
		my.scale_y			=1;

		wait(1);
	}
}

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Guess I'll write a c++ function for now.