[http://sourceforge.net/p/ufoai/feature-requests/500 Item 500] imported from sourceforge.net tracker on 2013-01-28 20:20:07

Hey !
Onee of the reasons I did so many sub-animation-sets is to avoid repetition by having the ability of animation combination & individualization & so allowing for much more variability for the whole of the animation. Ressourcewise each subanimation is just a part of the whole & the renderer has just to process those few pixel, while the rest is alpha-channel. That is the reason, why those sub-animations are so small even though lossless pngs are used for each frame. But I am digressing, sorry.

What I could use to further enhance variability would be a material-system command like 'animrnd' that executes each frame chosen by a random generator. This would further give us the possibility to avoid repetitions completely for some sub-animations (mostly buttons), whose animationframes could be executed randomly.

Something like:
animrnd [number of frames] [animation speed]

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====== tlh2000 (2010-06-28 15:37:23) ======

nice idea - i will implement this when i find the time
====== tlh2000 (2010-06-28 15:49:48) ======

implemented in r30733 - called animr