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Need an advice about static sprite VS animated sprite

by Andrea Farid Marsili · in Torque Game Builder · 08/26/2010 (8:59 am) · 3 replies

Sorry if I'm annoying you with my topic.
I'm working on a Graphic Adventure/Visual Novel game so there will be a lot of animation and pictures.
Five minutes ago I discovered that Static Sprite cannot play animation and Animated Sprite cannot display static pictures so I think abut to different way to solve my problem:

First way:
Two actor, one for animation, one for static pictures. I'll set the visibility of the actors to display animation or static pictures.

Second way:
Single animated actor, to display static pictures it will display a single frame animation.

#1
08/26/2010 (3:05 pm)
I've done it the 2nd way. The main reason is if your code is class based, it seems pointless to have separate classes with animation being the only difference.
#2
08/27/2010 (6:12 am)
Thank you.
PS: a single frame animation with 0 FSP is better then an animation with FPS >0?
#3
08/27/2010 (5:32 pm)
Sorry, I don't understand the question.