recommended fps for sprite animations

andy_the_baker

hi.

i come from a 3d background. so to make my sprites i'm modeling and animating in max, and rendering out frames.

i wonder if anyone has suggestions about how many frames per second to render out. currently i'm doing 10, but to my eye they still seem slightly choppy? i'm doing 4 sets of (hopefully) 1 second animations (spawn, walk, attack, death). each (punyfied/compressed) 128x128 pixel image is 13.3K.

4 sets x 10 frames x 13.3k = 532k per character.
4 sets x 15 frames x 13.3k = 798k per character.

with 8 characters total (16 maybe if i allow people to pick sides and since i can't "flip" sprites i'll have to duplicate them) this adds up fast.

so i'm just wondering what people's experiences are, and if anyone has advice.

thanks, gamesalad community!

Photics

With Photics Fireball, the monster was animated at 15 frames per second. 10 does seem a little too light. But unfortunately, you're concerned about memory. I think it depends on your project and what platforms you're targeting.

andy_the_baker

actually i'm thinking there's no way of doing a 1 second walk animation so i'll have to expand that to 2. maybe instead of doing death animations, i'll play around with color/fade on a single frame and save there.

thanks.