tchem Glad you like the film

I added a link to my website on my profile page, I'm mostly a video guy rather than a game dev ;)

But yeah, if I ever do a bigger game with my own designs, it's quite likely to end up as a visual experience like your game here

Also being able to apply basic transformations (crop, offset, mask?) afterwards sounds to me like a natural evolution to the "Load image from url" feature

Okay so here is a demo capx if anyone is interested in a temporary workaround for dynamic sprite animations!

SpriteAnimDemo.capx

I'm using the blend modes to create a mask around the sprite sheet, then animate it with a few events. Then anyone can use a regular "load image from url" to replace the sprite at runtime. In my case I have to work with random and unknown sizes of sheets, and you have that in the example too.

Here's a recap of the layer structure from top to bottom:

TOP LAYER

• props sprites unaffected by the mask

MASK LAYER (+ force own texture YES)

• bg sprite (+ SOURCE OUT blend mode)
• mask area

BG LAYER

• character sprite
• bg sprite

Ashley I'm still interested in a lighter method though

Also all the masking seems to affect the overall performance a bit from what I understand.

So again, instead of a one-click "Load Image from URL as Sprite Strip" big feature, we could use just a few simple options on the sprite element to crop or offset the image at runtime (and deal with the animation ourselves)

There could be a lot of other uses to theses params :)

Ok thanks Austin I managed to create an account after a few more tries

Not sure but it may have something to do with Avast Antivirus indeed

Especially the demo capx, that shows the boards only when Avast is disabled! :\</p>

Hmm... I want to create an account on the website but the buttons do nothing?

Also I tried the test, but nothing happens when I press space either...

Does it have anything to do with me having a crappy connexion at the moment? (I saw something about a 7sec timeout in a previous page, and yes I do tend to have port 843 error quite often)

Tom

Hi, any update on this?

I just figured out today for the —

The current forum looks good visually, but I need to follow topics BADLY, it's impossible to keep track of everything otherwise ^^'

thx

What I meant about the character is that you could find something more subtle, or maybe with less particles.

If the game has to be contemplative, the avatar is maybe a bit distractive.

For example how about giving different "shapes" to those particles to form a body, or some other living creature, but just slightly and keeping rather abstract of course.

Turns out I made

with evolving particles a while ago ;)

<img src="http://imgur.com/n9IQx.png" border="0" />

Using the IMG plugin

I just have one event on start of layout to "Set image URL" to an other avatar image here

Thanks for the capx!

Actually I made it work in the meantime with my proxy method, but it doesn't hurt knowing an alternative I guess ^^

Just tried the plugin though, and I'm gonna have to stick with the proxy (and load img from url) for now, because the Sprite element is more flexible for my use

Also "Set image to URL" from the plugin gives me an error...

(reporting in the other thread)

Really cool indeed, you got some fine immersion going on here

Maybe just the particle character feels too weird somehow

Did you also create all the sound design from scratch?

Pode

I use your div plugin, put <img> tag by action:innerhtml. It works, thanks.

Sounds fun :]

Can we have a capx or some detail/tutorial on how to do that?

I tried loading images from a proxy (like this code.google.com/p/mirrorrr/) on my domain, but while it used to work with flash and other stuff, I can't make it work with C2 :\</p>

Old thread but same issue here

Any chance you won't be using IE engine in the future?

Or do I really have to install this thing just for the start page

Thanks for the reply Ashley

I'm really new to game development, so I don't know a lot of things (nor am skilled enough to write my own plugins), but looks like Mipey may have a point here regarding general use

And people still have pngnq & pngcrush at their disposal if they want to optimize their images themselves

Also being able to apply basic transformations (crop, offset, mask?) afterwards sounds to me like a natural evolution to the "Load image from url" feature

Btw Mipey, I almost replied on your thread the other day when I saw your Spritefont plugin, isn't that quite close to something that could process a sprite sheet from an url into an animation?