AMOS TOME Series IV Manual  Index

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program, Pointed out to TOME with the Map Anim Bank command and then activated with the Map Anim On command.

Map Anim On
Activates the Map Anims

Map Anim Off
Activates the Map Anims.... Not

Map An Freeze n
This command temporarily freezes animation number n

Map An Unfreeze n
This commands thaws it out again.

=Map An Point(n)
Map An Point(n) returns the frame or step that animation n is currently displaying.

Map An Move n,x,y
This very simple command allows you to change the position of anim n on the map to map co-ordinates x,y.

=Map An At(x,y)
This function will return the map anim that is currently at map co-ordinates x,y. If no anim is present at this position then the function will return a zero.

Map Anim Bank bank, n,a
This reserves a bank for the map update list (if you are using map update) and the map anim list (if you Ere using tile anims). The bank should be reserved to n (The max number of updates) *8+ a (The max number of anims) *64 + 4. The following function works this out for you...