Animation: How many Frames can I insert into one Actor?

ozboybrianozboybrian PRO Posts: 2,102
edited November -1 in Working with GS (Mac)
Hello awesome people of the video game future!

So i've got a large actor who's going to run at 2-3 fps.

However, it will have 120 frames or more. Will this make the game Crash or is it ok since its just a few fps?

Thanks Guys!
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Comments

  • ozboybrianozboybrian PRO Posts: 2,102
    Bugger... Any optimisation tricks?
  • FjantIncFjantInc Member Posts: 115
    Haven't tried it, but saving as PNG-8 from Photoshop... Unless GameSalad converts it into a 24-bit image, it should save some ram. Although you're limited in the amount of colours used; up to 256.

    Could someone confirm if GameSalad converts images internally?
  • debugdesigndebugdesign Member Posts: 886
    what are you animating that needs to run so slowly and yet have so many frames?
  • FjantIncFjantInc Member Posts: 115
    It could be a character with lots of moves... or lots of costumes for example.
  • debugdesigndebugdesign Member Posts: 886
    can you play a specific frame set in an animation? I thought they would have to be separated out.
  • FjantIncFjantInc Member Posts: 115
    Don't know. I just assumed it was possible =) But I've learned that most of those things I take for granted in GS isn't there =)
  • ozboybrianozboybrian PRO Posts: 2,102
    It's day time passing, has shadows and the sun moving and the sky colour changing etc... lovely effect but many frames. mmm
  • ChunkypixelsChunkypixels Member Posts: 1,114
    How big is the character? I noticed you said it was large...

    You can get away with 2-3 frames for a run with small sprites, but the larger your character gets, the more ropey and jerky its going to look.

    Id suggest a better way of doing it would be to have an 8-10 frame loopable animation for the character run, that you can then change the RGB colour of to give the daylight changing effect. Have a 2nd actor with the animated shadow below the main character that you can stretch its height/width to give different time of day effect.

    So that would be like 16-20 frames total, across 2 actors, and would give you more flexibility, with the colour changes/transparency changes/size changes you could do to the actors.

    Edit: I just noticed you said it has the sky in the actor too... so it sounds like your playing a scene image animation, rather than an individual character running animation?

    In which case, my suggestion above isnt really going to work for you..
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