Store Player Animations Externally?

[notjustinbailey]

Hey! I'm trying to make a battle platformer similar to the fangame Super Mario War. One idea I'm working with is making it semi-customizable, in the sense that you can create a couple of frames of animations for your player and it reads them from a folder.

Is there a way to do this? I have 4 32x32 frames of Mario: idle, walk, jump, and die. Is there a way to select these files from a folder and have them act as an active object? I see the Active Picture and Animation objects. The Active Picture won't work because if I am looking at this correctly it adds a specific file and I can't seem to figure out how to allow the player to select their own pngs or gif.

Thank you!

[Simon]

One option is to load the frames into an active object at runtime, you can do this from the animation actions menu I think (I'm not at my PC to check it right now).