Shootemup explosion

[GormenGhast]

Hey guys.... I've made a shootemup explosion, but I'm having a whole bunch of trouble trying to alter the framerate on the .gif file. At the moment it's playing at about 75% the speed I would like it to. Here's the gif:



Also, any critique would be great. I'm trying to make my explosions as exciting as metal slug, but failing miserably.

[Jad]

Hey guy! Your image doesn't sem to work right now. That's a bummer, you should look into it!

[WM]

I'm not too big a fan of that movement to the right then back to the center -- I think it either needs a left movement mirrored in to it (I've always found mirroring to improve explosions, but that's just me  ), or for it to move only upward.

Try playing with wider movement variations -- for example, slow-rising at first then, as it changes to smoke, have it rise faster. or vice-versa. (I'm not talking about framerate variations, just wanna make that clear)

[GormenGhast]

Yeah I know exactly what you mean. In my haste to make it not like the metal slug version, I deliberately did it facing the other way - in retrospect it would definitely have looked better centralised the whole time. I'll give it a try tomorrow morning and then post when I'm done! Thanks