Mouse + animation dilemma....

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Mouse + animation dilemma....

Postby Jay S. » Mon Apr 30, 2007 8:40 pm

Whenever I play a long animation in GE and move the mouse simultaneously, the frame rate of the animation decreases. This is what I'm talking about:

I made an AVI movie, then extracted all the frames as individual image files. Next, I made these files an animation to play in GE. And it works quite decently, but whenever the mouse is moved the fps of the animation slows down, making a quite dumb looking animation... :cry: And, oddly enough, when the mouse in GE is disabled, when the mouse is moved this doesn't occur.

I doubt this is a fixable problem, but I thought I'd mention it to see what anyone else thinks about it....
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Postby Game A Gogo » Mon Apr 30, 2007 11:29 pm

How strong is your computer? (CPU, ram, V-ram)
How big is the animation? (Size and number of frames)

Those are important variables.
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Postby Jay S. » Tue May 01, 2007 12:30 am

I have a quite decently fast computer -- 2.53GHz CPU, 512 of RAM... And the animation.... 136 x 93 pixels, and around 600 frames.... But it doesn't really matter, though; as long as I can design around this principle, it should be OK, actually. At least it works best when the cursor is gone (which is most important for my case.) I just wondered if this was a common issue of GE or not. (I haven't had any other probs like this except for this case, though, so probably not.)

I hope GE supports movie files in the future.... :P
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Postby Game A Gogo » Tue May 01, 2007 1:06 am

well, i can't see the problem, I had an animation 800x600 and it contained 250frames (I don't think that it should matter much) and i have the same spec as you, doesn't lag :\
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Postby Jay S. » Tue May 01, 2007 1:48 am

Did it occur for you when you moved the mouse cursor (if it was enabled)? I also noticed that, I think, if you have a higher screen resolution that also aggravates it. For example, as far as I can tell, I've had less problems with 320 x 240 than with 640 x 480 (which is the resolution of my project.)
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Postby makslane » Tue May 01, 2007 2:57 am

I will investigate this issue, thanks.
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Postby Jay S. » Tue May 01, 2007 1:49 pm

Thank you, Makslane. :D I've done some experimenting around with it, and I think it even happens with a large animation of the such using Key down events... there might even be more. But if you could check into that, that'd be great. :)
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Postby makslane » Tue May 01, 2007 1:59 pm

Can you send me the game with this problem?
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Postby Jay S. » Tue May 01, 2007 2:50 pm

Sorry, Makslane, I can't: even when I compress it to .ZIP or . RAR it's 6 MB. :(
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Postby makslane » Tue May 01, 2007 4:08 pm

Send to my email.
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Postby Jay S. » Tue May 01, 2007 4:21 pm

Oh, OK. But before I do, however, I want to ask you, Makslane, something: I have GE version 1.3.2.

Will you be able to open it? :shock:
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Postby makslane » Tue May 01, 2007 4:38 pm

Sure! But in this case, is better you download the demo version and test yourself.
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Postby Jay S. » Fri May 04, 2007 8:40 pm

Makslane: sorry that I haven't replied to you in a while, but I've been veeeeeery busy and I haven't even had time to do so. :( Anyway, I've decided instead of e-mailing you, I redid the file so it has a smaller animation (thus smaller in size.) So, here it is. I made it especially for your testing; when you move the mouse cursor, watch the animation playing very closely, and if you do, while the mouse is moving, the animation slows down. Also, when you move the arrow keys it will move the Pakman actor on the screen; the animation slows down even while the actor moves....
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Postby makslane » Fri May 04, 2007 9:04 pm

I can't see the problem here.
Get the latest Game Editor demo version and tell me if the problem keeps happen.
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Postby Jay S. » Fri May 04, 2007 10:20 pm

I downloaded the demo of the latest version, and, it's still happening... Perhaps it's just my computer (for some reason) and not all other computers have the problem. Strange... :?

Well, thank you for your time, Makslane. :)
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