Requesting a "powerup" animation

[grazzhoppa]

We could use a subtle animation that would appear around or on top of you ship after you pick up a green.

Sparkles, glitter, fireworks-type animation
Glinting shine of an "energy shield" moving around your ship animation
A simple icon that shows itself for a few second next to your ship

Those are some ideas. It can be an animation or a static image.

Subtleness is key.

 

More Info:

This will be a screen-image LVZ.

It will appear in the center of the screen (on or around your ship) to indicate that you have received some power-up item from the !buy menu.

Ships are 32 pixels wide, 32 pixels high -> good information for scaling the size of your animation/image.

 

Here's the placement of an animation that I envisioned. I would like a much more subtle and more attractive effect than this. Maybe some circular "tail chasing" type animation. It would be cool if you made one that had an illusion that it went underneath the ship.

The animation should be less than 1 second, and very subtle.

This is for Extreme Games zone.

Edited November 2, 2007 by grazzhoppa

[ThunderJam]

I can do this for you, but will have to wait until Sunday before I can start working on it. Btw since your from EG, tell zeus and pointman that "TJ says to use his ?go aqua tiles" lol.

[JDS]

does it serve a purpose other than to look cool

?

[grazzhoppa]

does it serve a purpose other than to look cool

?

It's purpose is to visually indicate to the player that they have obtained something special.

[ThunderJam]

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y56/tman563/EG-powerup.png

 

It kind of fades out in the last few frames. I can give you a version that doesn't fade if you want. I could probly add a sort of sparkle along with it if you really wanted it. Or i can change the color to whatever you want.

 

 

*EDIT: sparks version:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y56/tman563/EG-powerup2.png

Edited November 4, 2007 by ThunderJam

[grazzhoppa]

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y56/tman563/EG-powerup.png

 

It kind of fades out in the last few frames. I can give you a version that doesn't fade if you want. I could probly add a sort of sparkle along with it if you really wanted it. Or i can change the color to whatever you want.

 

 

*EDIT: sparks version:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y56/tman563/EG-powerup2.png

Thank you.

We're using it now for a !TreasureHunt mini-game and a !buy menu.