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AppGameKit Classic Chat / Animated billboard texture

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CumQuaT
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Posted: 17th Aug 2016 15:36
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Hi all,

So in my 2.5D game, I'm using billboards for the enemies (think like Wolfenstein 3D) and they need to animate. I can't seem to find any references to animated texture functionality in AppGameKit, and I can't use Sprites since the enemies need to be able to travel behind 3D world objects, so I thought I'd put this out there and see if anyone else has run into this and what they may have done as a solution?

I know that I could load in each frame for each enemy as a separate image file and then write a manager that swaps out the textures as needed, but that seems an awfully inefficient way to do it...
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Green7
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Posted: 17th Aug 2016 16:00
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In the "useful community shader" thread someone got animated billboards via shader. maybe this helps?
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CumQuaT
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Posted: 17th Aug 2016 16:10
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Might do! I'll give it a go!
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JohnStabler
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Posted: 18th Aug 2016 10:53
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Have you tried using the SetObjectUVOffset() and SetObjectUVScale() functions? I think they'll let you specify a single spritesheet per object and then you just change the offset to animate. Better performance than changing an object's texture every frame.
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CumQuaT
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Posted: 18th Aug 2016 11:35
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Sounds like it could be fesable. I'd just have to try and write some kind of manager for it, I guess, and try to standardize my animation frames a bit!
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