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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:

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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. :mrgreen:

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.

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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.

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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

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Re: Good fire animations

Posted: Fri May 31, 2019 11:58 am
by djnzx48
Fire 'n Ice has these nice flickering wall torches:
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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:
Spoiler
I like that effect a lot. The ones with the shades on look a bit erratic though.