Change the thread title if you really wanna know how many people are interested. Change it to something like "want a free texture/sprite animation tool?" or "want a pocket-friendly texture/sprite animation tool?"

Sorry folks, the release of PCXanim still takes a while...

New addded features:

Alive: Gives some Kind of life to a texture

RSZ_Load: Allows loading and resizing formerly created animated sprites (filmstrips) as an "underlay" of an (mostly static) animation held in memory. The resized and underlayed animation is displayed then through color RGB(0,0,0)of the main animation held in memory.

This way skin sequences for MED Models can be created easily with multiple smaller animations implemented, lets say for a control console with 3 monitors with different animations as well as flickering control lights, radar screen or other FX.

A MED Model dwarf could get red glooming eyes or a green flashy lightning FX on his surface, controlled by a script.
Very easy to use and powerful feature.


Ok, thats it, please keep patience...

NeoDumont

Again: Sorry Folks, I m still working on a more bugfree version of PCXanim. The Demolevel is ready to be released, I'm just adding some notes how the FXs were created at the moment.

PCXanim, well, needs maybe one or two more weeks.

Please be patient, I assure you the result will be worth the waiting.

NeoDumont

It's great to hear mate. Just keep it up, we'll wait as long as needed!
BTW giving us few sneak-peek screens would be nice

@3run: I don't think it makes sense to post a scrrenshot of the demolevel, because it is about sprite and texture animation, and the animations cannot be shown with a screenshot. A still could hardly give any impressions of the animationFX.

So, again, plze keep patience, I try to hurry.

Neodumont

The Demo level "Mystery Island" (Demonstrates some PCXanimFX) can now be downloaded from this adress (Thank you square7):

http://juergen-hunke.square7.ch/pcx.cd.zip

The folder PCX.cd has been tested with AVG Anitvirus 2015 for viruses, (none found.)

The folder includes a readme file with a short description how the FXs were created.
All sprites and models are accessible, so you can have a closer look to my work.

Please note this is just a small demo, I created it quick and dirty.

PCXanim itself will be available within the next days I think.

NeoDumont

I've just tested the demo, it looks pretty nice, I really liked effects, especially those water flowing ones.
I'm looking forward to test the tool itself! It will be a great help for me to create oldschool games!

best regards

Really nice!

Thanks for the feedback !

The beta release of PCXanim (recreated) can now be downloaded from th following adress:

http://juergen-hunke.square7.ch/PCXanim_0.9.zip

Read the readme.txt first, then have fun and enjoy.

Greetings

NeoDumont

Folks,

I just found two bugs when running PCXanim on a very fast PC: Parts of the Windows taskbar are copied into the animation when the taskbar is in top position.
This affects shift_vert, shift_hor and swing only as far as I can see. Please pull down your taskbar to the bottom position to bypass this bug with this version. I will release a patched version soon.

BTW, PCXanim is developed further and more FX will be added the next weeks.

Greetz

NeoDumont