[SOLVED] animated textures

[ritti]

Hi, I'm trying to make animated textures for my strategy game.
E.g if I build a unit, the texture of the building should blink (I need it for more complicated things too so only blink wont be enough).
but as I just read, irrlicht doesn't support .gif textures.

So I'm not sure how to achieve that.
I could make an array or a vector with every single texture and switch between them but it seems not the best way.
How should I do that?
I hope you can help me.

Best regards
Ritti

[CuteAlien]

Maybe you can use ISceneManager::createTextureAnimator: http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/docu/cl ... 735d22d04a

Or if that's not sufficient it might at least give you some ideas how to create an own animator doing what you need.

[hendu]

Doing a blink by changing textures is expensive. Just use a shader to do the blinking, and keep one constant texture

[gerdb]

or use different uv coords with a texture-atlas

[mongoose7]

You could register two textures and just swap between them.

[zhengxianfu]

createTextureAnimator is very expensive , my Samsung I9100 can not display the example.

At last ,i update the texture by setmeterialtexture,I think that Irrlicht will cache the textures ,so it's very fast.

[ritti]

Thank you for your replies, I'll play around with the different ways so I'll see whats the best for my needings.
Thx again
Ritti