The Dink Network

You don't have to do that. I've done this sort of thing in my dmods before including with echoes. Look at some of the scripts such as ghost1.c below.

It is even simpler for a non-directional sprite.

void main(void)
{
preload_seq(876);
int &crap = random(3, 3);
sp_speed(&current_sprite, &crap);
sp_brain(&current_sprite, 9);
sp_base_walk(&current_sprite, -1);
sp_touch_damage(&current_sprite, 6);
sp_hitpoints(&current_sprite, 12);
sp_defense(&current_sprite, 3);
sp_exp(&current_sprite, 8);
//sp_target(&current_sprite, &enemy_sprite);

int &dir;
int &fr = 0;
int &x1 = 1;
int &ct1 = 0;

toploop:

&dir = sp_dir(&current_sprite, -1);

&fr = 0;

if(&dir == 1)
{
&fr = 0;
}

if(&dir == 4)
{
&fr = 0;
}

if(&dir == 3)
{
&fr = 2;
}

if(&dir == 2)
{
&fr = 2;
}

if(&dir == 7)
{
&fr = 4;
}

if(&dir == 8)
{
&fr = 4;
}

if(&dir == 9)
{
&fr = 6;
}

if(&dir == 6)
{
&fr = 6;
}

&fr += &x1;
sp_pframe(&current_sprite, &fr);

&ct1 += 1;
if(&ct1 > 2)
{
&ct1 = 0;
&x1 += 1;
}

if(&x1 > 2)
{
&x1 = 1;
}

wait(33);
wait(99);
goto toploop;

}

void die( void )
{
int &hold = sp_editor_num(&current_sprite);
if (&hold != 0)
editor_type(&hold, 6);

&save_x = sp_x(&current_sprite, -1);
&save_y = sp_y(&current_sprite, -1);
int &junk = create_sprite(&save_x, &save_y, 0, 876, 9);
sp_que(&junk, 1);
external("emake","small");
}