I know one way is to make a sprite for each frame of his animation, then play them out one at a time over and over... That's going to be the easiest way, if I'm not mistaken

You can check to see if a button is pressed, and only roll the sprites while they are pressed

Tip: In sonic games, the "roll speed" is function from speed of sonic, more sonic is faster, more his legs will turn!

make a counter var, and adds it for example x speed, and if 0<counter<blah then pic 1, or if blah+1<counteur<blah.2...

a variable who's designed the be the counter ofr designing wich sprite will be used...

Something like:

[sprite1]->Pic1
[sprite2]
[sprite3]
[sprite4]
0->S  //Will use for animation purposes (frame number)
Repeat getKey(15)
If getKey
S++   //If a key is pressed, it will add one to the animation frame
(S=4)*65532->S  //If S = 4, it will subtract 4 (65532 should equal -4)
End
Pt-On(0,0,S*8+Pic1) //Will display one frame of the animation, and frames are 8 bytes each
DispGraph
ClrDraw
EndIs that what you need?

a variable that is used for counting
In general only goes in one direction.

a walking man is very easy (to those who can draw (I can't))

Example...
[picture still]->PIC1
[pictures left]->PIC2
[]
[]
[]
[pictures right]->PIC3
[]
[]
[]
0->A


getkey(3)-getkey(2)->D+X->X
.......
!If D+1
Pt-On(X ,Y ,A-D^4->A + PIC2)
else!If +1
0->!
Pt-On(X ,Y , Pic1)
else!If +1
Pt-On(X, Y, A+D^4->A + Pic3)
End
This one is really easy to modify and allows for both left and right direction with ease.