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NickH
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Posted: 16th Apr 2010 15:50
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Hi,

Does anyone know of a way of having an animated texture which uses an alpha channel? I can't think of a file format that does it let alone how to do it in DB. I'm about to add some explosions to my game and this could be handy.

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Nick
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Hawkblood
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Posted: 16th Apr 2010 16:05
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Do you know how to make an animated sprite?
If not, we can help with that too.
I make mine .dds files A8R8G8B8 and an alpha tex.

The fastest code is the code never written.
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NickH
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Posted: 16th Apr 2010 16:10 Edited at: 16th Apr 2010 16:13
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I'm wanting to make a 3D explosion to match the physics. My physics work perfectly, but each explosion has a defined radius, which is something I'd like to match, if that makes sense
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Hawkblood
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Use a billboard that you can scale. For better results, you can use multiple billboards.

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NickH
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Posted: 16th Apr 2010 18:09
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I have thought of doing that. That's how I did my projectiles.
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chunks chunks
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Posted: 16th Apr 2010 18:11
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if you look through the backlog of newsletters there is an article on billboarding explosions with code , sorry i can`t remember which one .

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NickH
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Posted: 16th Apr 2010 18:27
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Thanks Chunks.

I'm not only wanting to know about animations with alpha just for explosions. I'll need them for other things like force fields which would be simply static models with an animated transparent texture.
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basjak
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Posted: 16th Apr 2010 18:48
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you can make it youeself using simple paint program, same the format to ".bmp". you can download the expansion pack "texutre max" by DBPro. it will help you to create multiple channels then code the colour you want to display.
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