Hey,
I'm wondering how the Terraria animations work. Are there just many frames squeezed together? Or it is like a 3D rig with built in animations? I'm very curious and would like to know for future reference. Far as I know, Terraria was coded in C# and Visual Studio was used as the IDE.
Thanks,
Ovicior
).Terraria is hardly a shining example of game development and the fact it "shipped" and made a lot of money shouldn't really detract from that.All of the animation is hardcoded into the game itself rather than being driven by the assets themselves. (hardcoding the amount of content that Terraria has is generally a terrible idea if you have non-programmers who want to add content - but hey, they shipped a successful game and made a ton of money, so shows what I know
Lots of things are multi-sprite animations, but other things like swinging a weapon/tool just rotate a single sprite.
Terraria is hardly a shining example of game development and the fact it "shipped" and made a lot of money shouldn't really detract from that.
Thanks guys. But what would a good, efficient way of animating sprites be? I'm really curious,in case I want to dabble in 2D sprite-style games.
It's all just a matter of preference. You can have each "part" of your sprite rigged so that it can act like a ragdoll (would require extra software), or you can do spritesheet animations.
skeletal
Lots of things are multi-sprite animations, but other things like swinging a weapon/tool just rotate a single sprite.
Terraria is hardly a shining example of game development and the fact it "shipped" and made a lot of money shouldn't really detract from that.Thanks guys. But what would a good, efficient way of animating sprites be? I'm really curious,in case I want to dabble in 2D sprite-style games.
skeletal animation
skeletal animation
Even if you don't end up buying that software, that video does a very good job of showing what skeletal animation looks like with sprites.
