Explosion effect help needed

[TomWhitaker]

Hi all, I'm new here so please move if this is in the wrong forum..

I'm currently making a game where you have to tap monsters to make them disappear, but it looks a bit tame when they just disappear off the screen.. therefore I was wondering if anyone knew how to make the images kind of break up in an explosion effect or something similar?

Thanks in advance

[Allah]

Couldn't you just shrink them to zero (using an animation), and then remove them?

[Duncan C]

Originally Posted by TomWhitaker

Hi all, I'm new here so please move if this is in the wrong forum..

I'm currently making a game where you have to tap monsters to make them disappear, but it looks a bit tame when they just disappear off the screen.. therefore I was wondering if anyone knew how to make the images kind of break up in an explosion effect or something similar?

Thanks in advance

The easiest thing to do would probably be to set up a UIImageView frame animation. You could create the animation frames in the image editor of your choice.

Take a look at the docs for UIImageView in the XCode help system. It has a property animationImages that takes an array of images to use for a "flip book style" animation where it shows frame after frame. There is a section at the beginning of the docs for UIImageView called "Animating Images". It lists the methods you would use.

I would suggest either installing an animationImages array into a monster's UIImageView when it dies, or hiding that monster and replacing it with an image view set up with an array of animationImages already set up.

[TomWhitaker]

Originally Posted by Duncan C

The easiest thing to do would probably be to set up a UIImageView frame animation. You could create the animation frames in the image editor of your choice.

Take a look at the docs for UIImageView in the XCode help system. It has a property animationImages that takes an array of images to use for a "flip book style" animation where it shows frame after frame. There is a section at the beginning of the docs for UIImageView called "Animating Images". It lists the methods you would use.

I would suggest either installing an animationImages array into a monster's UIImageView when it dies, or hiding that monster and replacing it with an image view set up with an array of animationImages already set up.

Thanks very much, I'll look into it, I appreciate the help!

[TheStuFactor]

Check out Particle Designer - iOS Game Particle Effects - Explosions Smoke Fire Rain Stars - iPhone iPad OSX Cocos2D

I use this to create really cool particle effects. The explosion effects are really cool and it allows you to customize already built particles.

[TomWhitaker]

Originally Posted by TheStuFactor

Check out Particle Designer - iOS Game Particle Effects - Explosions Smoke Fire Rain Stars - iPhone iPad OSX Cocos2D

I use this to create really cool particle effects. The explosion effects are really cool and it allows you to customize already built particles.

Thanks for the reply, but we're already working on a tight budget with this one and I sadly don't think I can afford to shell out Maybe as an improvement for an update!

[httptunnel]

Originally Posted by TomWhitaker

Thanks for the reply, but we're already working on a tight budget with this one and I sadly don't think I can afford to shell out Maybe as an improvement for an update!

WOW...that is a tight budget seeing as the particle program is only 8 bucks !!

Just sayin'

[TomWhitaker]

Originally Posted by httptunnel

WOW...that is a tight budget seeing as the particle program is only 8 bucks !!

Just sayin'

haha I know, were kind of stingy

[Domele]

O.o $8...... can't afford to skip one lunch?

[TomWhitaker]

Originally Posted by Domele

O.o $8...... can't afford to skip one lunch?

Healthy diet makes for good programming but in all seriousness we just wanna figure out how to do it so it's a bit more flexible.

[TheStuFactor]

It's more cost efficient to spend the $8 than to spend a day writing your own particle system...just saying.

Good luck reinventing the wheel!!