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Importing animations

by Ryan McKenzie · in Torque Game Builder · 11/30/2006 (1:54 pm) · 10 replies

Is it possible to import animations, for example, created in photoshop. I plan to create flowing grass caught in a wind, like the motion in a mexican wave. You can understand that this would take alot of work if I were to assemble the frames....seeing as this grass plane is extremely long.

So to recap, can I import assembled animations into TGB?
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Associate Tom Eastman (Eastbeast314)
#1
11/30/2006 (2:44 pm)
I'm not really sure what you're asking. If you can get the frames of the animation tiled in an image, it's easy to turn into an animation in TGB.

Perhaps I'm missing the real question here.

Torque Owner Ryan McKenzie
#2
11/30/2006 (2:52 pm)
The original way to create animations in TGB is to create seperate images and join them together in TGB.

well supose that i join the images together IN PHOTOSHOP so that I could just import this animation into TGB.

Associate Tom Eastman (Eastbeast314)
#3
11/30/2006 (3:09 pm)
I think I kind of understand what you're saying. I think I'm getting confused as to what we're referring to though. An image could be one of two things. There's the actual file and then there's the imageMap that TGB uses.

The only way I know of to make an animation in TGB is to make an image (bitmap, png, whatever) with all the frames of animation in it. Then, open that in TGB using the imageMap Builder, change the mode to CELL, divide it so each frame is in it's own cell, and save that imageMap. Then you use the animationBuilder to put the frames into whatever order you want.

Is that what you're asking about? I don't know Photoshop well enough to understand how you "join the images together in Photoshop"

Hope that made sense ;)

Torque Owner Ben R Vesco
#4
11/30/2006 (4:46 pm)
Also you can create the animation sequence "by hand" if you know the frame numbers, just generate it. It could be possible to get Photoshop to run a script that does it for you.

Torque Owner Yves (Kreegrr)
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#5
11/30/2006 (7:34 pm)
Check out GlueIT, it's a utility I created just for that: :)

http://sysimage.250free.com/

Torque Owner DragonSix
#6
12/01/2006 (8:37 am)
Yep, GlueIT is great for this, thank you Yves, your tool is really usefull.

Torque Owner Yves (Kreegrr)
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#7
12/01/2006 (12:05 pm)
I'm glad you guys like it :)

Torque Owner Ryan McKenzie
#8
12/01/2006 (6:07 pm)
Glueit looks great but unfortuantly I run a mac and the programs for windows. I'm trying to find a program like this for mac, but if anyone is already aware of one please let me know.

thanks anyway Yves ;)

Torque Owner Jemand den es nicht gibt
#9
12/03/2006 (5:03 am)
Yves: I use your tool aslell! Thanks for sharing this. :)

Torque Owner Yves (Kreegrr)
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#10
12/03/2006 (6:47 am)
Hehe cool!
I'm looking at my options to make it crossplatform, pc, osx, linux..etc, stay tuned.