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Explosion for in my game

on: August 23, 2006, 03:07:39 pm
Hey!
I'm making a game (a game you maybe heart of: "Battleships" but the name will be different. It's a game you can play over LAN and everyone should have to play it! :P). Now i made this explotion for the game:

C+C please :D
« Last Edit: August 23, 2006, 06:34:14 pm by Morph »

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Re: Explotion for in my game

Reply #1 on: August 23, 2006, 03:32:26 pm
Don't make it simply recede back into a smaller blob of orange.  After it gets to the big fiery ball stage (mid-way through your animation) make it turn into smoke and fade/drift/dissolve slowly... perhaps twice the number of frames in the initial explosion itself.

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Re: Explotion for in my game

Reply #2 on: August 23, 2006, 03:40:49 pm
Yeah that sounds cool! Gonna try it!

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Re: Explotion for in my game

Reply #3 on: August 23, 2006, 05:51:39 pm
Looks nice enough for what it is.

I don't know what program you used, but something went wrong after the first frame. There's antialiasing, stray pixels, and dithering all over the place.

I think in the last frame, the explosion shifts right one pixel, kind of looks odd.

Btw, it's spelt 'explosion'.

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Re: Explosion for in my game

Reply #4 on: August 23, 2006, 06:36:45 pm
it's very strange, i had that problem with other animated gifs also. I just used flash so it's kind a strange. that blue pixels ???... . But if you can me suggest an better program i will try that one ;)
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Re: Explosion for in my game

Reply #5 on: August 23, 2006, 06:52:26 pm
You used Flash to make the explosion?

Anyhow, here is an explosion I made a while ago to give you some reference:



Heck, here are a few more smaller sizes:



and a smaller one:




They are a bit "puffy" but they should get you started, they are all low frame-count and low color.

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Re: Explosion for in my game

Reply #6 on: August 23, 2006, 07:02:10 pm
Hehe, yours look nice ;) but your like a pro isn't it. I will try to finnish some smoke on my picture, i'm working on it now. But your explosions are exectly what i need ;) mine didn't really look as i wanted, but i'm finnishing mine and see what it will be  :P
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Re: Explosion for in my game

Reply #7 on: August 23, 2006, 07:22:26 pm
Here's my explosion with smoke:

I think it's better (except the strange quality) and that i could perfectly use it but i want to hear all your decisions ;D

EDIT:
Someone said the smoke was too green. I don't know if there's anything wrong with my monitor, but is it too green?
And that flash animated gifs looks really to strange to me, so everyone who knows some other program, tell me!
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Re: Explosion for in my game

Reply #8 on: August 23, 2006, 07:35:35 pm


Here's a reference for more advanced explosion.
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Re: Explosion for in my game

Reply #9 on: August 23, 2006, 07:37:05 pm
That looks really great! But i'm not that good to make that  :( and it would also be too big for my game, so what do you think of mine?



hehe... first saw your picture and than mine... than mine looks a bit less good looking ;) hehe... i think i need more practice ;)
« Last Edit: August 23, 2006, 07:39:26 pm by Morph »