Animated explosion?

[Karl]

well is there now a gadget that allows that?

yes i know the spawnbox but that is too limited

[Forboding Angel]

Use ceg

[knorke]

animated explosions, spawnbox? huh, what do you mean?

[Karl]

Use ceg

NO!

it is pretty much limited
like you cant make them move etc

[oksnoop2]

You can hide pieces in the animation script and augment it with little explosion cegs.

[Karl]

You can hide pieces in the animation script and augment it with little explosion cegs.

well works badly for weapon explosion

so this means there is no gadgets that allows weapon explosion contains animated explosion

[knorke]

wtf is an animated explosion?
the cegs are all "animated", moving etc. do you mean sprite explosions?

[Karl]

wtf is an animated explosion?
the cegs are all "animated", moving etc. do you mean sprite explosions?

yes that

[Forboding Angel]

That can be done with cegs. CA did it a long as time ago and iirc SA is still doing it that way.

[Karl]

That can be done with cegs. CA did it a long as time ago and iirc SA is still doing it that way.

Great <.< i write up loads of spawners and delaying
it is not that what i am looking for because it loads the CPU too much
and you cant do much with it
i am looking for a solution witout spawners!

[Forboding Angel]

Fucking shut up and listen!

CA did this a long time ago. Frame by frame animated explosions. It was abandoned because of the amount of texture memory that it consumed.

IT WAS DONE VIA CEG. And unless you happen to be a lua coder, doing it this was is the only way that you can do it.

I suggest that you ask one of the CA devs that has been around since that time (quantum maybe?), or crack open SA (because I believe SA still uses this method).

Edit: Also, if your cegs are grinding the computer to a halt, you're doing it massively wrong.

[knorke]

http://springrts.com/wiki/CEG-Classes

CExpGenSpawner
You can animate an explosion flip-book style using delays and several bitmaps.

I think that is what you are looking for. As with everything there is no example. I am pretty sure NOTA uses such explosion effects, good luck finding them.

/edit, had a quick look:
bitmaps\flameyburst\flameyburstXX.tga
used by
Gamedata\explosions\cheesypoof.tdf
also entries in
resources.tdf

[Forboding Angel]

Ehh, dealing with any info from the wiki involves a lot of educated guessing, qq, and much BAW.

[knorke]

ok, no wiki then. instead we make a list of list of who to ask:

• animated sprite explosions: quantum (maybe)

[Forboding Angel]

Well, not everything in the wiki is fail, just most of it.

If there were software that combined a wiki with a forum, imo that would be the best for KB type of stuff, however, the answers site is quite useful as well.

[Pxtl]

Well, not everything in the wiki is fail, just most of it.

If there were software that combined a wiki with a forum, imo that would be the best for KB type of stuff, however, the answers site is quite useful as well.

Google Wave. The ultimate case of jumping straight from hype to obscurity.

[Forboding Angel]

[Neddie]

Well, not everything in the wiki is fail, just most of it.

If there were software that combined a wiki with a forum, imo that would be the best for KB type of stuff, however, the answers site is quite useful as well.

Google Wave. The ultimate case of jumping straight from hype to obscurity.

That was due to how awful it was in reality.

[AF]

IIRC it worked fine, its just that the biggest roadblock to users actually adopting it was also the last thing on their priority list ( email federation on google servers & GMail )

[Forboding Angel]

IIRC it worked fine, its just that the biggest roadblock to users actually adopting it was also the last thing on their priority list ( email federation on google servers & GMail )

^^ This is why google wave died