I am back to plague you with beginner’s questions! Yeah!
I have enjoyed Fire Maple Games’ fantastic The Lost City.
I was wondering how can you conjure animations like those shown in the game? I do not think it can be done with videos, as they would open up a player: is it done with regular sprite sheets? Or maybe it is a new technique the developer used for the game?
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I presume they used storyboard/director class, so that for every scene the image is loaded as a background and transparent buttons act as triggers for the story to develop.
The quality of the visual art is great merit to the artist, because The Lost City is just 40 MB and they employed 225 images.
I suggest you ask your questions using their own thread here in the forum, because it is a pity to waste their hints in subtopics. [import]uid: 67641 topic_id: 21540 reply_id: 85312[/import]
Thanks for the tip! [import]uid: 124625 topic_id: 21540 reply_id: 85324[/import]
I think that Joe did mention that he did not use videos and used frame by frame images to manage the animation. It is cleverly done with alpha channels and alternating between jpg and png for space optimization. [import]uid: 3826 topic_id: 21540 reply_id: 85399[/import]
I think he took a video then out of that grabbed some frames and animated them after adding effects using free applications. [import]uid: 10389 topic_id: 21540 reply_id: 85428[/import]