how to animate full screen ?

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#1

hi :slight_smile:

i want to build an application but do the animation on the whole screen (or nearly the whole screen)

i can’t use a movie because then it would take me to a player, and i want the animation to be as part of the overall app.

the animation is around 10 seconds long.

i started looking for a way to do this

i can use sprite sheets, but i’m doing this game for i-PAD and every nearly full screen image is around 2048x1536 in resulotion so it doesn’t make sense to use the animation as sprite sheets becouse it would be around 3 images per second let’s say * 10 seconds * ipad3 resulotion = 61000x46080 in resulotion … it’s wayyy to big for a sprite sheet and even if i device it to let’s say 3 different sprite sheets

it would still be 20000x15000 

do you guys have any idea on how to overcome this obstcle ? (without just playing a movie becouse this would open an external player that i don’t want and the animation is nearly all the screen not the full screen)

i mean i can allways load images to memory in advance and run on the images one by one but it looks as though it’s not the right way to do it

i mean

Corona probebly has somthing smarter then that no ?

#2

Hi Mars, 

Did you figure out an appropriate way to do this? I have a similar problem, where I would like to play an intro animation, and I am wondering what format to do it in.

Thanks!

#3

Have you tried using native.newVideo()?  It plays in screen, not in a separate player.  I’ve used this several times to play animated splash screens for clients.  There is a gotcha on Android though, it suspends your app and you do get a resume in the background, so you do have to program around that aspect.

Rob

#4

Hi Mars, 

Did you figure out an appropriate way to do this? I have a similar problem, where I would like to play an intro animation, and I am wondering what format to do it in.

Thanks!

#5

Have you tried using native.newVideo()?  It plays in screen, not in a separate player.  I’ve used this several times to play animated splash screens for clients.  There is a gotcha on Android though, it suspends your app and you do get a resume in the background, so you do have to program around that aspect.

Rob

#6

Hello! 

I think i can pin my question to this topic. 

Is there any way to make starting screen as beautiful as this in Spotify?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQdO2iy8GMg

IMHO Sprite sheets would be to too big to achieve such an effect.

Paweł

#7

There is no way with Corona SDK to draw on top of video. In fact it’s a feature that is impossible with our framework. You might be able to build the start screen using Enterprise but it would be 100% native. Then perhaps after they interact with the buttons, the rest of the app could be done in Corona/Lua…

Rob

#8

Hello! 

I think i can pin my question to this topic. 

Is there any way to make starting screen as beautiful as this in Spotify?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQdO2iy8GMg

IMHO Sprite sheets would be to too big to achieve such an effect.

Paweł

#9

There is no way with Corona SDK to draw on top of video. In fact it’s a feature that is impossible with our framework. You might be able to build the start screen using Enterprise but it would be 100% native. Then perhaps after they interact with the buttons, the rest of the app could be done in Corona/Lua…

Rob