Android Question How do you make animations like this?

[LucaMs]

Using LibGDX? If so, what "methods"?

 

[LucaMs]

@Informatix, are you here?

Just some hint. I do not necessarily need it; I think it's interesting and these things are "fascinating".

 

[sorex]

since it's affecting the entire board I think it's a transparent movie layer.
size must be about 4x (2x2) the gridsize to cover the grid from any possible position.
and made in some fancy animation tool.

 

[LucaMs]

since it's affecting the entire board I think it's a transparent movie layer.
size must be about 4x (2x2) the gridsize to cover the grid from any possible position.
and made in some fancy animation tool.

So you rule out that it (and similar things) can be done at runtime, right?

 

[Jeffrey Cameron]

If the little "confetti pieces" travel the exact same path every run then it's one big animation that is played. If the confetti paths change between runs then they are probably particles. The bouncing ball bit is likely an animation that is played, although you might be able to achieve the same thing with a particle effect applied to an image.

Google LibGDX particles, there are several tutorials online, also http://libgdx.badlogicgames.com/documentation.html is a good place to start.

 

[LucaMs]

The bouncing ball bit is likely an animation that is played

Yes, this is probably what makes us assume that it is a video.

 

[sorex]

So you rule out that it (and similar things) can be done at runtime, right?

it depends on how it 'interacts' with the grid.

here the ball can be positioned anywhere since you need those 2 tiles.
but the way things fly around the ball ain't done with just simple math as bluring happends etc so it's animated.

the clearing/washing of the grid might be a second animation to keep the animation size down to just the grid size.
(no need to be bigger since the placement is always the same)

 

[LucaMs]

I really don't know.

I like those "effects", but I am an old DB developer , who has never tried nor studied this things.

For example, even if those were pre-production videos... how are they displayed? Just to display an animated gif is a problem, currently: the upload is very slow.

 

[walterf25]

Using LibGDX? If so, what "methods"?

It can be done in LibGDX using the particles class, if you read Informatix posts about it you'll find a tool which is used to generate this kind of particles.

Regards,
Walter

 

[LucaMs]

t can be done in LibGDX using the particles class, if you read Informatix posts about it you'll find a tool which is used to generate this kind of particles.

Particles, in graphic animation, is one of the few things I know (I know what they are, I have never created them [here I used views, more that 2 years ago ]) but there is other stuff that you need to know, to create the animation I posted in #1 (and it is an example, I would like to know what is usually used for those kind of effects).

 

[walterf25]

Particles, in graphic animation, is one of the few things I know (I know what they are, I have never created them [here I used views, more that 2 years ago ]) but there is other stuff that you need to know, to create the animation I posted in #1 (and it is an example, I would like to know what is usually used for those kind of effects).

Again, it looks like they are using particle effects.

Walter