Secondary motion

#1 @Rob: You'll find that not everything can be done in scripts, especially as you get to more and more specific effects. Eventually, you'll be doing stuff in C++.

With that said, you could quite easily achieve this effect but doing it with your art I guess. Have them offset slightly in a handful of image-frames and set them up in an animation. Set the animation to also start from a random frame as well. This would be the most efficient way, assuming you've not already got complex animation on them.

I would say that when we've got a path object, there'd be no reason why you could use it to play some small complex path that looked like shaking.

- Melv.

#2 Hard to say really. It depends what else is going on in your game and what CPU you're targetting. Doesn't sound too much trouble though.

- Melv.

#3 Again, no idea. It really depends on so many factors that I'd just say try it and see. :)

- Melv.

#4 Ah cut it out Rob, you're definitely advanced enough to start jumping into c++!