Sequence

The art.ini section that lays out the frames of every action an infantry type performs.

Specification

Applies to: InfantryType
File: art.ini
Section: [<Image ID>]Image ID: Image= value; ObjectType ID when omitted
Value: string
When omitted: none

The value names another section of the same file. That section has one entry per action the soldier can perform, and each entry has up to four fields:

the first frame of the run;
the number of frames in the run;
the number of frames from one facing to the next;
optionally, a compass point the soldier turns to when the run ends: N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W or NW, in capitals. Struggle and the death runs ignore it.

[E1] ; the Image ID of the stock Light Infantry
Sequence=E1Sequence

[E1Sequence]
Ready=0,1,1      ; one frame per facing, frames 0-7
Walk=8,6,6       ; six frames per facing, frames 8-55
Idle1=56,15,0,W  ; one run of 15 shared by every facing, ending facing west
Prone=86,1,6     ; the first frame of each crawl run
Crawl=86,6,6

The frame drawn is the run’s first frame, plus the animation stage wrapped to the frame count, plus the per-facing jump times the soldier’s facing. The facing counts as one of eight directions, numbered from 0. A jump of 0 makes the run the same for every facing, as the Idle1 entry above is. A JumpJet=yes soldier with a target uses the direction to that target in place of its own heading while its jumpjet locomotor is in control.

An action whose entry is missing from the section gets a frame count of 0, and an action with a frame count of 0 never starts. A soldier whose section omits Idle1 never plays it.

Entry names

The table lists every entry a sequence section may have and the action each one drives.

Entry	Action
`Ready`	Standing at rest
`Guard`	Standing on guard; never played
`Prone`	Lying prone at rest
`Walk`	Walking upright
`FireUp`	Firing upright
`Down`	Lying down
`Crawl`	Moving while prone
`Up`	Getting up
`FireProne`	Firing while prone
`Idle1`, `Idle2`	The two idle animations
`Die1`	The gun death, for `InfDeath=1`
`Die2`	The explosion death, for `InfDeath=2`
`Die3`, `Die4`	Two further death animations; never played
`Die5`	The burning death of a `Doggie=yes` type, for `InfDeath=4` or `5`
`Hover`	Hovering on jump jets
`Fly`	Flying on jump jets
`Tumble`	Tumbling on jump jets; never played
`FireFly`	Firing while flying
`Struggle`	Struggling inside a web

See also — FireUp, FireProne, Crawls, JumpJet, Crew