Question about elysian shadows graphic designer.

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Re: Question about elysian shadows graphic designer.

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Woot, okay, animations are awesome I give you that ^^, one of the best points you brought up i'd say, plus, i'm guessing because of the animation gifs are avaliable ^^
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mgold07 wrote:\i'm guessing because of the animation gifs are avaliable ^^
? Not in the engine, no. They're laid out on spritesheets (so you open a .png and see all frames laid out like you would any other spritesheet).
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Re: Question about elysian shadows graphic designer.

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Trust me, nobody uses an animated gif in a game.
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An animated .gif is about ha1f as usefu1 as using a prerendered cutscene.
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Re: Question about elysian shadows graphic designer.

Post by LeonBlade »

I highly doubt you could even USE a GIF file for animations...
But yeah like everyone has said, all 2D games with animations use either sprite sheet, or just make another image for each part of the animation.

GIF files are for the web really...
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What are you guys talking about I use GIFs all the time.. In Visual Basic 6 at school. :lol:
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