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Where are the graphics to make dink spin around.

I think it's frames from the dink\fall\ graphics.

That is not the one.
Dink can actually spin in 360.
I once saw the graphics, but cannot
remember where they are at.

Yeah, I think it's those but for example just frame 1 in directions 2, 4, 6, 8. Make them into a sequence by themselves maybe.

IIRC Dink spinning is in Creeping Sands but the graphics are in .ff format so I can't tell. Might be in another D-Mod though.

I saw dink spinning in a dmod where you go into a basement
and fight a duck, and after the duck, you fight a stone giant.
when you beat him you get to spin.

Guess what, I found the code to make dink spin
so I will post it so all can know.

I just remembered where I had it.
kind of awkward I know, but
at least now everyone can know how
to make dink spin and not get
stumped.

here it is, the script is called spindink.c

//Spinning Dink

void main ( void )
{
int &rwait = 40;
loopy:
sp_dir(1, 2);
wait(&rwait);
sp_dir(1, 4);
wait(&rwait);
sp_dir(1, 8);
wait(&rwait);
sp_dir(1, 6);
wait(&rwait);
if (&player_map == 698)
goto loopy;
kill_this_task();
}

don't worry about the &player_map.
you just use what ever screen you
need.
This set of code is for warping
while making dink spin.
so hope you enjoy.

i think it is both quicker and easier to type wait(40); instead of int &rwait = 40; wait(&rwait);

so just type wait(40); since it is quicker and easier

I thought you were asking for special graphics.
In Creeping Sands he spins round while kind of sitting down and does somersaults as well.

The point is that if you figure out that 40 is a bad value, and you want to try another, you only have to change it in one place instead of in all the wait commands. Classical programming procedure.

You could also subtract from &rwait within the loop to make him spin from slow to fast. That might look a little better.

void main ( void )
{
sp_dir(1, 2);
wait(50);
sp_dir(1, 4);
wait(40);
sp_dir(1, 8);
wait(30);
sp_dir(1, 6);
wait(20);
sp_dir(1, 2);
wait(30);
sp_dir(1, 4);
wait(40);
kill_this_task();
}

easier than having &rwait -= 10 in each line

Fireball...

"The point is that if you figure out that 40 is a bad value, and you want to try another, you only have to change it in one place instead of in all the wait commands. Classical programming procedure."

It's easy anyway, as you just copy-paste that line whenever needed.

i actually find that my way is easier

No it isn't. Copying and pasting is just as fast in either cases, and you'll be in more trouble when you want to change the delay to 60. After all, it takes way longer to change 20 lines rather than just 1 (that variable).

You should seriously start learning programming tricks like this.

Trick? It's programming 101.

Indeed, set one variable to stay, instead of 100 to-boot!

I couldn't find a better term at the time of writing.