Animated Textures

I was looking through the documentation when I came upon ID3DXSprite.
It seems like overkill considering your situation, but you might like it.

Oh, and if you want to control the timing of the animation, or give the object a name or a frame count; I dunno, maybe a class will work fine.

Maybe there''s a better way, but this is how I''d handle it.

I checked out ID3DXSprite, but that is only usable for front facing "billboard" images (am I wrong about this?). This is useful for some things I am doing, like labels over the heads of characters and things like that, but I need animated textures on objects that are being rendered into the scene.

I can only think I''m missing something really obvious, since this sort of thing is seen in games all the time, but no one is answering here.

Thanks for the answer, though. If I am wrong about Sprites only being billboarded, please let me know!

Best,
Onnel

No, it looks like if you use DrawTransform, it won''t be front-facing.

Anyway, use a class if you want to modify an object texture.

struct RectObj
{
float urtu, urtv; //Set Upper Right Texture Coord
float ultu, ultv; //Set Upper Left Texture Coord
float lrtu, lrtv; //Set Lower Right Texture Coord
float lltu, lltv; //Set Lower Left Texture Coord
};

class AniTexture
{
public:
int AniTextureName; //Name of the Animated Texture, you can also use strings if you like.

float fFrameWidth; //Width of one frame
float fFrameHeight; //Height of one frame
int iNumFrames;
float fImgWidth; //Width of the Texture
float fImgHeight; //Height of the Texture
LPDIRECT3DTEXTURE8 lpTexAnimation; //Texture Name

int iTimePerFrame; //Number of frames before the next frame is played.
int iProgFrame; //Number of frames since animation started
RectObj FrameCoords; //Filled in by Update Frame

void UpdateFrame(); //changes FrameCoords based on information from iTimePerFrame and iProgFrame and fFrameWidth...
};

class AniTexObjManager
{
//Manages the AniTexture Classes.
//Might want to use a linked list to reference the animated textures. Or a static array if you aren''t going to use that many. Up to you to figure out how you want this information returned.

public:
void CreateTexture(float, float, float, float, int, int); //Guess where the information passed in goes.
void UpdateTextures(); //Call this from the program
void ReturnTexCoords(float, &RectObj); //Use this in main program before drawing object.
.
.
.
};

There ya go. Up to you to improve it.

Great! I hadn''t seen the DrawTransform! I''ll try it out ASAP.

Thanks again,

Aaron