Animations on iOS

[Brahmanathaswami]

I have a "deep and abiding" interest in this, since the days I tried 
SMIL on the web. Aside: hmm I thought SMIL was alive again last year, 
but it seems dead today...  Can't even find any current discussion on 
"SKIA animation" which could be another direction...

Paul: Scott's method works well, storing frames in custom props...   
that fellow's fist needs to start bleeding though after the 5th loop. (ha)

It would be interesting if we pushed this model with

a) a lot more content
b) robust SVG (= +color, gradients etc.) for the images

and see how low we can get the byte count/length ratio for longer 
animations. Some combination of this + Malte's Animation engine could go 
a long way.

Let us know how it goes on Mobile...

<mini-rant>
  LC is so far behind in this arena... At Scott's suggestion, I tried 
the first video game I ever played in my life: Monument Valley... So 
beautifully done, though in the end I got, as usual bored to tears and 
had to force myself to finish level 10 just on principle and, as some 
anti-gamers  say, despite the award-winning graphics/puzzles... "I came 
out of the game dumber than I went in"

That said. These things made in Unity are awesome and the "holy grail" 
would be able to play unity "shorts"  inside Livecode. Their WebGL 
export (--> unity to enscriptenJS)  will not work on mobile

</end mini-rant>

BR




Paul Hibbert wrote:
> I think it was Scott Rossi that figured out a way to play an animation by storing images as text in custom properties, then load each image in turn into an image object.
>
> I would imagine this may be limited to smaller less complex animations, but up until now I hadn’t tried it myself, so I had a go…
>
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/ebltjtztsj1ymlc/CP%20Animation.livecode?dl=0
>
> Haven’t tested on mobile though, my LC&  Xcode versions are out of sync again.
>
> Paul