Animations on move

[LordOfAles]

Can game engine handle unit animating while MOVING and ATTACKING?

[Puss_in_Boots]

I believe it cannot. Otherwise I might have found amything in a topic regarding this, but there would be to many units to animate. Which creates a whole lot of work for drawers like yourself and some coding for the developer.

[Stratego (dev)]

Sure it can but that needs a bit of coding.
But the bad news is we have many units to animate


Also please use good topic namings - thanks.

[DoomCarrot]

That would take.... An insanely long time to make animations for every unit...

[LordOfAles]

Well,im up for a task,but i can do it on winter holiday

[LordOfAles]

But first:

1. Do every unit needs 1 animation to attack in all directions?

2.Do every unit needs 2 animations for left and right attack?

3.Do every unit needs 4 animations for up,down,left and right attack?

[DoomCarrot]

Exactly, each direction would prob need an animation, otherwise it might look really bad if a skirmisher throws javelin to the right when it is attacking to the left lol

[Puss_in_Boots]

This could work well with my turning units idea. We should probably save this for when we run out of ideas though. That way we won't have to create 4 images every time we have a new idea.

[LordOfAles]

Agreed

[DoomCarrot]

4 images + 4 animations....

[Puss_in_Boots]

It's gonna be alot more than 12 images each with all that layering that is necessary.

[LordOfAles]

16,for sb who has nothing to do...meh

[Dan301002]

It will be much to cost for animating.
But there is always button to skip animation lol.

[Sunrise Samurai]

Sounds like a good way to increase the file size for the game. I'm sorry, but this is one good idea I can't approve. AoS and all variants are all currently easily squeezed into low end devices with limited memory. If we start multiplying the amount of images for moving animations for everything, it might add a lot of additional space requirements. AoF takes up almost 45 mb of space on my phone, so I can avoid space issues (seeing as it's a piece of junk) with these games. That many images would rapidly increase that to something less manageable.

[LordOfAles]

45 mb?lol.It takes just 17 for me

[Avalyn]

I think this idea is rather improbable, there are a ton of units to animate.

That would take.... An insanely long time...

[Sunrise Samurai]

I've got a "few" games going, single and multiplayer....so it might be a bit bigger because of that. Anyway, my point remains, one big selling point is the fact that it has a lot of content for taking up almost no space, and I don't want to ruin that with thousands of near duplicate images. I'd say animations should be kept for standing animations, where they are seen the most, and ad the most influence to the graphics.

[Puss_in_Boots]

With tons of free time it could be possible, but this could be used as free downloadable content, instead of being inserted straight into the game.

[LordOfAles]

It could be downloadable straight from game menu(if user wants to)