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Texture Animation

Texture animation in the world is achieved by using a a single texture, with 64 frames (8x8), running over the course of 4 seconds (16 FPS). The texture can be any square size (eg 2048x2048, 1024x1024, etc), as it will be pre-processed before loaded into the game. The frames progress first by going across the X axis, and then down the Y axis.

Texture matrix
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39
40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47
48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55
56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63

Using in the block

In order to use, you must set the TextureResource to be the sequence you must set two properties

        public override string TextureResource
        {
            get
            {
                return this.ResourceResolver.Resolve("seq/water.png");
            }
        }

        public override BlockAnimationMode AnimationMode
        {
            get
            {
                return BlockAnimationMode.TextureSpritesheet;
            }
        }

Generating the texture

There are a few ways you can generate these textures. If you're so inclined, you can always create them by hand via photoshop or gimp, but I also wrote a tool you can use to generate them from frames found at https://bitbucket.org/zix99/pab