item database bug/quirk?

[SilentThief]

One more question, has anyone done any animated pics? I mean, even just opening the small pic pool under the global settings sets up the normal picture controls *which include number of frames and millisec between frames* (remember the chick that winked at you in FRUA, who I guess was a witch (or else it was her without her make-up ))

SilentThief

[manikus]

There is a pic of an animated portal here at Ironworks. I'm sure I tried it out, b/c I started working on one of my own, which I never finished.

[LurchBrick]

It works well. I've used it in one of my designs.

[SilentThief]

So how hard would it be to make walls that are animated (or overlays)? I'm not sure how it works, but it'd seem to be a similar process as the other graphics displayed (but then again it might require multiple "frames" of the wall that make it so there is a much larger download to play a mod...)

SilentThief

[manikus]

Right now, DC only supports animation for small pics.

But even if it did for walls, I'm not sure that it would be feasible. For example, 1 frame of the walls that I'm currently using is 2k+ pixels. Now, imagine a very simple 10 frame torch animation...way too big to work with. It's not just the size of the download, but a pic this size, even one color, eats up so much RAM that it locks my system up.

[SilentThief]

Right, and there is no support for color cycling . I guess then that if you want a torch on the wall you'd have to use a sprite.

SilentThief

[manikus]

No color cycling- to do that we'd need have a 256-color palette for the art, and if I'm not mistaken, b/c of the way MFCs works it would have to be 256-color for everything.

[SilentThief]

We've had the sprite discussion B4, whet would rock is the option for non-standard sprites so you could have more than 3 frames , and of course still have the 3 frames for FRUA compatability

SilentThief

[manikus]

Once the sprite feature is available for events other than the 1 that is currently allowed, i.e. as an option for every event that allows a small pic, I think we'll be able to use sprites that are more than 3 frames. It might even be that if you use an alpha channel that you can use small pics instead of sprites, in which case we can already do 4+ framed sprites.

[SilentThief]

Of course, you can fake it. Make a small pic that has the same background image as the current selected backdrop

SilentThief