What are the steps of creating an animation? Should it need some graphics or illustrations or raw files of psds to start working to animate? Or can animate the wind only? How to start best way to animate and what to animate as begginner?
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I am doing a voxel game in Godot. Using magicavoxel . Is there a fine way to do voxel animation without rigging in blender. May be frame animation of 3d model in Godot(is that possible or do we animate only 2dscreenshots of the model?)Because there is no proper export format for animated model in magicavoxel.
Or is there another good tool which allows to export animated voxel models, ready to use?
I know I am a little late to this question but if anyone is still looking for a fix this could work: If you want to animate frame by frame, one way that you could do this is by exporting each frame to an .obj from magicavoxel. Then load the model one after another switching them out every couple of frames. It might be a bit slow but if you really want to use this kind of animation style then this is probably the way to go.
I have managed to animate a series of sprites by dragging a group of sprites into the Hierarchy. However, when I enabled the Canvas, the Canvas was blocking all the sprites. What should I do to display the animation on the Canvas? I have tried adjusting the layers and camera modes, but to no avail.
I'm not sure if I understood your question correctly, but I understand that you want your sprites to be displayed on top of the UI. You can use 2 cameras and adjust their depths so that one of them displays the layer of the animation (make this one the top camera) and the other one displays the UI layer.
Use Culling Masks in Camera
How to use Multiple Cameras
I'm using sprites for an animated menu in my game.
I tried two methods:
Image Renderer: Replacing the image per frame with the sprite slice in the animation window
Sprite Renderer: Same method
I'm playing the sprite animation with no loop then rotating the transform on the z-axis.
The problem is that with the image the Screen Space overlay works well but the rotation of the transform causes the sprite to look glitchy and rough. With the sprite renderer however the Screen Space must be put to Camera and the sprites get placed between other assets in the world.
Example: http://postimg.org/image/436q9jvax/
Is there a way to either fix the roughness on the rotation using image or force the Camera Screen Space on top? My only concern with the 2nd option would be in relation to responsiveness for multiple devices.
The easiest fix was to apply "sorting layers" to the canvas with the sprite renderers on to keep it on top.
I did however incorporate #beuzel's idea about separate cameras in the end and opted for 2D sprites with physics instead of a 3D rendered animation on canvas.
http://postimg.org/image/6qmtiirb9/
Thanks for making the good sample. A fix for the menu intersecting the world is using a seperate camera for the GUI layer. The rough animation might be a pixel perfect setting in the sprite rendering (just guessing).
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How to spread color Top to Bottom using CCTintTo method in sprite.
Because i am using CCTintTo method to spread color in sprite. But i want to look like spreading color in top to bottom.
What to do for this types of animation.
Thanks in advance.
If you are using cocos2d 2.0+, you could write a shader to do this, and set the shaderProgram property of the sprite. Not that hard, follow the examples in the distribution. My first shader took me .5 work days to get to work, and maybe another .5 workday to properly integrate that technique properly in my overall software architecture. g'luck :).
Look here for an introduction to shaders, play with it in a side project until you are comfortable to integrate in your main trunk.
That's not possible with color tinting. Changing a node's color property or using the tint actions will only tint the entire sprite with a single color, there will be no gradient.
You would have to custom draw the sprite and apply/adapt the gradient rendering code from CCLayerGradient.
Yes CCLayerGradient is what you are looking for.By the way what technique you are using for coloring.If you are using CGContextSetRGBFillColor method to fill the sprite color then it would be tricky but if you are using images to fill color then nice sequence of images plist can be used to produce animation which will give you the exact effect you are looking for.
Take the sequence of images and animate them using CCSpriteBatchNode otherwise if you want to use RGB colors to fill sprite then you have to look for gradient effect.
I am using LibGDX for a small app project, and I need to somehow take a series of sprites and place them (or their pixels rather) into a Pixmap. The basic idea is to take random sprites that are generated through various means while the app is running, and, only at specific times, merge some of them onto a single background sprite.
I believe that most of this can be done easily, but the step of getting the sprite images into the Pixmap isn't quite so obvious to me. The sprites also have various transparent and semi-transparent pixels, so simply grabbing the color at each pixel while it is all on the same screen isn't really applicable either, as it obviously shouldn't take the background colors with it.
If there is a suitable alternative to this that would accomplish what I am looking for I would also love to hear it. Any help is highly appreciated.
I think you want to render your sprites to an off-screen buffer (called an "FBO" or FrameBuffer in libgdx) (blending them as they're added), and then render that offscreen buffer to the screen as a single draw call? If so, this question should help: libgdx SpriteBatch render to texture
This requires OpenGL ES 2.0, which will eliminate support for some older devices.