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Good fire animations
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2018 12:56 pm
by Ralf
We had a thread about good rocks graphics (
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=736 ), why not make it about good fire graphics and good fire animations ?
I'm not asking totally out of boredom
actually I would like to see it done properly to have start point and inspiration for my games graphics.
I remember Dizzy games have all these torches and generally a lot of fire in them:
Any other good stuff?
Re: Good fire animations
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2018 4:22 pm
by R-Tape
There should be loads but I'm struggling to find them.
The burning chalices in Sword of IANNA are quite good (~4.50 in the RZX) but you're probably thinking of something more full bodied. Then I remembered the fireplace in Brunilda and was astonished to (re)discover that it was a pasable FLASH animation!
I'm rather pleased with my random frame fire animations in
El Stompo, but you probably don't fancy dipping your toe into bicolour.
Re: Good fire animations
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2018 4:37 pm
by Rorthron
If we're blowing our own trumpets
, I was quite pleased with the colour-clash-free wall torches in Balachor's Revenge. I doubt anyone ever notices them, though, as they only appear in the frantic last stage when you are unlikely to be admiring the scenery
.
Re: Good fire animations
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2018 3:32 am
by zxbruno
It's been a while so the following may be incorrect:
-Phantomas?
-Myth?
-Abu Simbel Profanation?
I know there are dozens of them, but none come to mind. This reminds me of when I asked (years ago) which games had good castle-like graphics.
Re: Good fire animations
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2018 6:52 am
by Juan F. Ramirez
zxbruno wrote: ↑Fri Jun 15, 2018 3:32 am
-Phantomas?
-Abu Simbel Profanation?
I thought the same so I've checked their maps to confirm and there's no fire animations, even in Phantomas 2 that takes place in Dracula's castle. Myth do have.
In Spirits (Topo Soft) there are plenty of torches and candles:
https://maps.speccy.cz/map.php?id=Spirits
But it's hard to think about any other games with them.
Re: Good fire animations
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2018 8:17 am
by Ralf
Yes, a lot of torches and candles in Spirits, and even some bigger fire under a cauldron. But the quality is nothing special.
And now I remember a "sea of fire" in Savage:
https://maps.speccy.cz/map.php?id=Savag ... rt=19&ath=
Re: Good fire animations
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2018 10:14 am
by Juan F. Ramirez
Check Stormbringer. There are more torches there
http://maps.speccy.cz/map.php?id=Stormbringer128K
Re: Good fire animations
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2018 1:49 pm
by Sokurah
There was also a nice fire animation in Firelord.
Re: Good fire animations
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2018 2:04 pm
by RMartins
it would be nice to see the animation frames, somewhere, in a PNG (all frames) or animated GIF.
Some of the references, we can only see a blurry video.
Games like "Balachor's Revenge", and others, which are hard to get to the place where the animation is, can't be seen with the attention they deserve.
Re: Good fire animations
Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2018 6:19 am
by zxbruno
Don't have time to confirm if they're good or not, but these games have fire animations:
Underworlde
Dizzy
Death Stalker
Fairlight
Sir Fred
Re: Good fire animations
Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2018 7:32 am
by Juan F. Ramirez
Now I remember a fire animation in Phantomas 2 (Vampyre), near the start, you have to pass over a table with two candles and wait when they have no fire. It's a small animation, though.
Re: Good fire animations
Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2018 5:08 pm
by druellan
I recently stumbled into a an old DK' Tronics game called Trom, and we where impressed by the fire animation.
Re: Good fire animations
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2018 8:50 am
by Alessandro
I did a fire animation for
Apulija-13. I reworked it several times but in the end I was pleased enough with the result.
Re: Good fire animations
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2018 10:30 am
by Juan F. Ramirez
Just discovered that in Las Tres Luces de Glaurung by Erbe, there's a good fire animation in the first screen to the right of the start.
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=1054
Re: Good fire animations
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2018 11:44 am
by Spud
Does the fire in Sabre Wulf when you hang around too long on one screen count? I guess it does, but is it good?
Re: Good fire animations
Posted: Fri May 31, 2019 11:06 am
by IvanBasic
Towdie.
Re: Good fire animations
Posted: Fri May 31, 2019 11:10 am
by arkannoyed
Melkhiors Mansion. Not strictly Speccy (not yet!) but nice fire anims for the wall lights by redballoon
https://youtu.be/qYwRw7dr2Fg
Re: Good fire animations
Posted: Fri May 31, 2019 11:58 am
by djnzx48
Fire 'n Ice has these nice flickering wall torches:
Re: Good fire animations
Posted: Fri May 31, 2019 12:01 pm
by arkannoyed
djnzx48 wrote: ↑Fri May 31, 2019 11:58 am
Fire 'n Ice has these nice flickering wall torches:
I like that effect a lot. The ones with the shades on look a bit erratic though.