I’m curious if anyone can point me to the best way to create longer animated sequences. The animations are fairly large (in scale) and could potentially last 5-8 seconds. Since I need to keep my sprite sheets to 1024x1024, then a single animation could stretch over 10-15 sheets. I’ve looked a little at spritemultiset to handle stitching all of the sheets together but that still seems ill suited for something like this. Only one animation would play at a time, so would it be better to just string 200-250 frames together in a movieclip to play?
I’m new to corona, but it seems like i’m missing something regarding more heavily animated (and less interactive) app creation.
Thanks for any help!
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Is this an app or game?
If it’s an app, maybe combining those frames into a movie file would be the best idea [import]uid: 84637 topic_id: 21058 reply_id: 83208[/import]
Thanks for the reply. It’s more of an app than a game…certain interactions trigger a longer kind of “storytelling” animation sequence. A movie file would work fine but my understanding was that a movie file would bring up the devices set player controls for watching it. Is it possible to just embed and play a video file within the app and not leave the experience or show player controls? And, if so, can you attach metadata to the video to start and stop the video in places?
Thanks again.
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You can do this with the new video api. It’s only available to subscribers at present though via daily builds.
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Thanks. Is there any documentation on that I can look at? [import]uid: 88842 topic_id: 21058 reply_id: 83230[/import]
Sure 
http://blog.anscamobile.com/2012/01/using-the-new-native-web-video-apis/ [import]uid: 84637 topic_id: 21058 reply_id: 83231[/import]
Hey Danny, I’ve gotten the new video api working…thanks for pointing that out. I’ve seen this question posted a couple of times but no answer. Do you know if there is any way to put a button or another display object over the video object?
Also, I’ve tried adding a video object to “scrollView” but doesn’t seem to work…is it possible to drag the video object or is there a work around?
Thanks.
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