TrailerSeperation

The number of frames between one trail animation and the next.

Specification

Applies to

AnimType

File

art.ini

Section

[<ObjectType ID>]

Value

integer

When omitted

0

The animation sheds a TrailerAnim on every frame of the game clock whose number is a multiple of this figure, so 1 leaves one every frame and 4 leaves one every fourth. The clock is the game’s and not the animation’s own, so two animations of the same type created a frame apart still drop their trails together.

The setting is consulted only where a trailer animation is named. A negative figure behaves as its magnitude, since the test asks only whether the frame divides evenly.

A trail without a separation stops the game

The test divides by this figure and nothing guards the zero it holds when the section leaves it out. An animation that names a trailer animation without a separation faults on its first logic frame, so the game stops the moment one is created. Every animation in the shipped art.ini that names a trailer gives a separation with it.

See also — TrailerAnim

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