Spinning Cartoon Earth

nslinconslinco Member Posts: 0
edited December 2013 in Working with GS (Mac)
Hello, I am looking to create a spinning ball/globe/earth sort of thing, this will be on the home screen and when you tap it, it will bounce a little bit and fly off the screen and it will go to the next scene. I don't know how easy it will be or if it is even possible but I would greatly appreciate any help! Thanks!

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  • tatiangtatiang Member, Sous Chef, PRO, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 11,949
    If you are wanting something to appear as a three-dimensional spinning object, then you need to draw each frame of the animation and use the animate behavior to display the frames in order and in a loop.

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  • FajlajpFajlajp Member Posts: 666
    Otherwise, you could use the rotate behavior, if you don't want the 3d spinning like tatiang said
  • jeezzcakejeezzcake Member Posts: 144
    edited December 2013
    Spinning earth made with GameSalad.
    No animation frames!

    http://www.arcaderz.com

  • tatiangtatiang Member, Sous Chef, PRO, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 11,949
    Nice globe. I assume you're just moving a background behind a cover image. Won't really work for a bouncing ball, though. Or maybe it would if the ball is "bouncing" because of movement rules and not actual physics.

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  • SocksSocks London, UK.Member Posts: 12,822
    edited December 2013
    Won't really work for a bouncing ball, though. Or maybe it would if the ball is "bouncing" because of movement rules and not actual physics.
    To get it to work with a bouncing ball, all you'd really have to do is constrain the mask (that masks the scrolling earth image) to a ball, as the ball bounces the mask (and earth image) will follow.
  • tatiangtatiang Member, Sous Chef, PRO, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 11,949
    Hmm, yes that would work. :)

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  • SocksSocks London, UK.Member Posts: 12,822
    edited December 2013
    @tatiang
    Hmm, yes that would work. :)
    It'd be a bit convoluted but it would, in theory, work, but I think the better solution would be the one you mention in your first post . . . draw (or render) each frame and use the animate behavior to play the animation.

    Here's (a rather boring) example mask locked to a ball . . .
    File: https://www.mediafire.com/?88pk0mqxja5yd4r

    And here's a quick render of a 120 frame image sequence for all to use:
    Link: https://www.mediafire.com/?lo9p17l1u0q7w3i
    image
  • SocksSocks London, UK.Member Posts: 12,822
    Spinning earth made with GameSalad.
    No animation frames!
    Excellent stuff ! :)>-
  • BBEnkBBEnk Member Posts: 1,764
    My spinning Earth touched and sent offscreen, it's also a 3D render 145 frames the example file is below your all welcome to use the earth images in your games if you want. it's not perfect it's one of the first animations I ever rendered. oops I forgot to make it bounce a little oh well you can do that yourself.. ;)



    https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/58782733/earthBounce.zip
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