Good way for animations?

Hi all,

I'm still learning alot every single day about Construct 2.

And i love it!

But yet i've didn't learn a thing about animations.

I tried to use some animations programs but that just pumps up the game to 90mb+ for a simple animation.

I need some clearence about simple movements etc. to get my game more alive.

All i got now are steady objects that don't move.

What i am trying to explain is that i want to give my game more alive with sounds and animations ( sounds is no problem ).

Some simple effect examples:

The 3 stars at completing a level

Switching between layouts

Fade in Fade out

That kind of stuff. What is the best way to realize some simple effects like those.

Thanks in advance.

For the three stars you could probably just use three instances of the same star.

for the fade in fade out it's probably the easiest to use a very small tiled background stretched out over the layout and change it's opacity over time.

There is a fade behaviour that you can add to an object to control settings for fade in/out

How many frames does your animations have? In filmmaking it should be about 25 in construct i always use 5 which is absolutely enough. Maybe this causes your game to get that big!