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Message: 5180

Author: john_elliott_uk

Date: 28/11/2005

Subject: Re: Skylabs and droplets (for John)

 

--- In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, "Igor Makovsky"
wrote:

>
> John, is it possible in any way to create a skylab which has
> different first animation sprite? And is it possible so that the
> skylab won't animate wuth all its 8 sprites, when reached the end of
> its path?

Not without patching the game engine, same as for droplets.

> P.S. Why I'm worring about this? Because I have very limited memory
> space, because of the large amount of sprites, needed for the game,
> and I, actually, don't won't to loose a whole memory page on a single
> skylab animation. (Which will meet, probably, only once in a game)

Nothing I can do about that. Well, almost nothing. There's always
the solution that was adopted for /Shadow Of The Unicorn/.

 

 

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