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let me elaborate. the function dbCreateAnimatedSprite() requires a file name. is there any way to acheive a similar effect (an animated sprite) from an image from a memblock or a dbSendNetMessageImage()?

You could save your image to a temporary file with dbSaveImage.. the reload it with the dbCreateAnimatedSprite command, and delete the temp file that you saved, as a workaround.. I think it may depend on the image format though, im not sure if the dbSaveImage command would preserve all of the image data or if it would convert it to a different format to save .... for example, if you are using a png with transparency setup, will dbSaveImage save it as a png with the transparency intact ? or would it save it as a bmp.... I dont know if that would even make a difference, but its something to think about.

Otherwise you could kind of manually set it up by dividing the image into seperate images/sprites and writing some code to cycle them through like an animation(you could even texture the images onto small 3d plains and make a "3d sprite" system if you wanted to)... I think saving the image and reloading though would be the easier way to do it lol

hmm, that seems like a plausable solution, but one thing: does the GDK store the image, or does it constantly read the file for the image? if the latter, deleting the temp file would throw everything off.

edit: i looked, and you can't save as png, which just about all my images are. any other ideas?

Yes you can...

I cant say what image format dbSaveImage supports as ive not tested it with anything other than bmp's lol... but I would give it a go anyway.

To answer your other question, no, gdk doesnt continously read the image from the disk.Once it's loaded into memory, thats where its accessed from, so deleting it from the disk is completely viable.

My solution though isnt the most efficient way of doing it, but it does seem to be the quickest and easiest. And in reality, with the speed of hard disks and the size of them these days, a few millisecs during load and a couple hunderd k or so of diskspace isnt going to matter too much