Animate textures

[lynce]

Anyone got any knowledge on how to animate textures, say like a healthbar texture, in oUF?

[Munglunch]

Originally Posted by lynce Anyone got any knowledge on how to animate textures, say like a healthbar texture, in oUF?

What exactly did you have in mind?

[lynce]

Well i was sort of fascinated how SyncUI does animation on the unitframes. And i was wondering if someone have any experience doing this in oUF.

[lightspark]

Originally Posted by lynce Well i was sort of fascinated how SyncUI does animation on the unitframes. And i was wondering if someone have any experience doing this in oUF.

It has nothing to do with oUF or anything, it's done old school way and pretty simple. Basically it's just a slideshow, he has a texture with 60 "slides", and an OnUpdate script running for a statusbar, that goes through 60 slides.

[lynce]

I see. Thanks.

Hm looks quite complicated:P

[lightspark]

Originally Posted by lynce I see. Thanks. Hm looks quite complicated:P

It's really simple though. First you make a map of "slides", then you make a table of coordinates for each slide, in SyncUI case he has a table of 60 items. He has a function that continuously runs through this list for certain statusbars, as the result you have a fluid animation.

You can check his code in \SyncUI\Modules\Elements\StatusBar\StatusBar.lua file, table of coordinates is the biggest part of it Syncrow's code is pretty easy to read, so you shouldn't have any problems.

And that's his "slide" map \SyncUI\Media\Textures\Elements\Statusbar\StatusBar_Animated_Fluid.tga.