I thought I saw some AnimatedTexture based tests somewhere, could be that or something completely different.

I will, either way, create a spire object for everybody to use as soon as TEF and updated SceneGraph are ready

It will be supported soon as an upload action.

Until then you can try to disable content updating (delete the Services section in your Settings.xml) and add something like this in your Content\ContentMetaData.xml file:


Obviously you also have to add the files referenced in LocalFilePath and you should make sure the other properties are correct too (different PlatformFileIds and PixelSize).

I have also opened a feature to get this sorted out on the server side so this custom step is not necessary anymore.

I am not sure what you mean by this. Obviously image animations are supported in code (see my example above) and now have been improved for the ContentManager as well (see http://deltaengine.net/W...mage_Animation_Editor_4, it is a work in progress, I have not updated the page yet).

The best and easiest way is to just use a bunch of single images with the same size (they don't have to be, but this is the easiest way to batch export something from photoshop, flash, 3ds max, maya or other tools). Just drag those into your content project and that's it. All images will automatically be reduced to the smallest possible size and rendered correctly in game (if you need the bounding rectangle for game logic, you also get it automatically calculated via InnerDrawArea for each frame). In addition all those images will be packed into atlas textures for the best performance as well.

If you need help with any content and maybe want to test the new Image Animation Editor coming in the next days, just let us know

You could just build your own ImageAnimationData object in code or just wait a couple of days until the ImageAnimationEditor is available in the ContentManager.

Basically v0.9.2.12 just compiles again, it did not fix any client-side issues yet. I have written down the issues and once they are fixed, they will appear in the change log.

The new tools and feature will now appear incrementally in the ContentManager (will test them one by one). Usually I finish features first so our internal teams can use them with their tools and then I make sure the features are usable in the public repository as well (with a slight delay obviously).

About ImageAnimations: You can use the ImageAnimationEditor in the ContentManager soon (seems to be the most requested feature right now), it will look similar to: http://deltaengine.net/W...Image_Animation_Editor_4

If you want to create image animations at runtime, you could either just create your own ImageAnimationData like mentioned above:
http://help.deltaengine....g_ImageAnimationData.htm

Or assign images yourself in the Material (which has all the animation features, but passing them into the constructor might only work internally in Delta.Rendering assemblies):
http://help.deltaengine....s_Materials_Material.htm

Or you could roll your own system and just display materials yourself (either multiple materials you switch or just change the texture image in a material from frame to frame).

As a matter of fact I just finished the "new" way of importing image content. In the old ContentManager tool when you upload a gif file it will be converted to a static image file first and then processed further (like all other image formats). Except if you upload it via the ImageAnimation content type (which is grayed out, so not possible), which did allow .gif upload or multiple files, but the ImageAnimation editor was not completed.

Short answer: Currently not fully supported (you would have to split the gif up and do all the animation image assigning yourself), but coming soon (today or tomorrow) with much more powerful features.