Bitmap feature in Gideros 2012.8.2

OZApps

@Atilim, it was a real surprise to see the new version released today.

I got a sample for sprite animation and will release it soon, to use for animations. Here's a peek preview



I tried to run it with a larger number of sprites and it still worked quite well.

atilim

I'm glad

Btw, I will be releasing another version soon that
1. Fixes this bug: http://giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/comment/11170#Comment_11170
2. Extends the plugin system for future plugins

OZApps

Here's a video taken from the Dancer's sample of C*SDK to check how sprites perform with Gideros. It works smooth. The code for this will be posted soon however you will have to get the image (to avoid any drama's)

atilim

Great! Using tile maps would be faster (just kidding )

OZApps

Great! Using tile maps would be faster (just kidding )

That too, writing a library around using this (as time permits)

OZApps

Here is an article with the Code to run the test above, if you want to experiment with the same, you can have a peek at the code and do so.

http://howto.oz-apps.com/2012/09/gideros-set-sprites-on-fire.html

If you like it, you can say thank you by following me on twitter @ozapps

GregBUG

@OZApps or @Atilim

this would help to speedup my animation system...

BTW

MovieClip (internally) is already using this feature? (i meat to swap textures of sprites?)

atilim

@OZApps yay! thank you for this great article!
@GregBUG In fact, MovieClip directly draws the sprite therefore it's faster than this feature.

OZApps

@Atilim, but then you need to create each of the frames in advance and set them as the frame images, they are not generated on the fly are they? Just some PRO's and CON's of the two.

The Movie Clip is actually a very powerful and I am not sure how often it is used by devs, but I can see the Flash timeline = MovieClip.

techdojo

@Atilim, but then you need to create each of the frames in advance and set them as the frame images.

Correct.

Yes MovieClip's are powerful but for simple looping animations - especially long ones, swapping the texture is more efficient.

evs

Here's a version of a movie clip animation i did a while back updated to use the new features

original is here...
http://www.giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/comment/5731#Comment_5731


cheers

evs