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Offline Pragma

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Animated .gif - Timing Question
« on: August 01, 2008, 10:12:24 am »
Are the animated .gif files supported in 1.5 guaranteed to stay synchronized throughout the game?

The reason why I ask is simple: I'd like to experiment with moving water, blinking lights, or other palette-cycle-like effects for maps, which would involve using multiple .gif files, repeated in various places on the map.  If they're not kept in sync, the effect would be ruined.

Thanks for any light anyone can shed on this.  :D
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Re: Animated .gif - Timing Question
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2008, 01:08:50 pm »
Yes, I think the .gif scenery will play continuously until the game ends.
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Re: Animated .gif - Timing Question
« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2008, 01:36:18 pm »
Quote from: ElSpec774 on August 01, 2008, 01:08:50 pm
Yes, I think the .gif scenery will play continuously until the game ends.

Well, that much I can gather.  But that's not quite what I was driving at.

Say you have two polygons, each textured with the same animation of a traffic light.  Will they both read red, yellow and green at the same time, all the time, every time, no matter what the client state is?  Or will one eventually lag behind the other for some reason?

Granted, I wouldn't ever expect this to happen, but I've never seen Soldat's codebase, so the underpinnings for such things are beyond me.
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Re: Animated .gif - Timing Question
« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2008, 02:20:35 pm »
I dunno about .gif textures (possible?)...
But scenery, as long as they are about the same size, they should stay synced with each other for the map.
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Re: Animated .gif - Timing Question
« Reply #4 on: August 02, 2008, 01:11:34 am »
Oh god, animated textures would be overkill.
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Re: Animated .gif - Timing Question
« Reply #5 on: August 02, 2008, 01:21:39 am »
Didn't I answer this EXACT question on IRC afew hours ago?
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