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Dark GDK / Question about animation.

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Wizz
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Posted: 23rd Aug 2009 21:11
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I want to know how to make an animation that plays only once. Like an explosion. In the TGC folder i found a series of pictures that represent an explosion if displayed one after another. How is that done?

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Posted: 24th Aug 2009 07:17
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If by series of pictures you mean separate images for each frame and not a sprite sheet then you can just load up all the explosion images beforehand and create a plane whenever you need an explosion(then position it somewhere and point it at the camera) and increment some value representing the age of it and apply a different image each time this value goes past a step of say 0.1 seconds. It may be beneficial to wrap such functionality into a class to make it reusable though.

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Posted: 24th Aug 2009 23:05
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Yes i meant separate images for each frame... Ok, i'm guessing a plane is something you use in a 3D environment right? I'm trying to use this in 2D for once. So you say the only way to do this is to write a function with dbTimer? So there is nothing similar to "dbCrateAnimatedSprite" to make this a bit simpler?

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