How do I make a nicer spinner?

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Contrary to the large, orange spinner showing if you get a runtime error in the Simulator, the built-in one is almost invisible, and if you try to make it larger than half a fingernail, it becomes very blurry.

It’s a bit problematic to make image sheets manually, since Photoshop shrink-wraps the selection so that alignment is difficult and you can only check by playing the image sheet in Corona AFAIK.

Are there any GIF to image sheet converters, or do you have some general tips? Maybe you already have a neat, hires spinner to share?

#2

Generate a series of rounded rectangles and rotate them at large increments to get the spin effect.

#3

Yeah, that’d work, in the end I settled for the single frame construction method with rotation, and a non-animated spinner .png from preloaders.net.

#4

Generate a series of rounded rectangles and rotate them at large increments to get the spin effect.

#5

Yeah, that’d work, in the end I settled for the single frame construction method with rotation, and a non-animated spinner .png from preloaders.net.