Animations & Special Effects Repository?

Game On Interactive

So I have been trying to look a lot into cool animations for my game recently, to make it more lively. Searching across Google, I have not been so lucky to find much.
Animations in them self-are one thing as to giving a character walking animations or jumping, those are easy things. What I am interested in that is not seen too often are the "special effects" stuff. I have come across a small handful of Menu style tutorials such as wheel rotation or a menu that bounces in. I would love to see more of this type of work. Things from when you go into a bonus, a star explosion may come across the screen. Or something like still images that appear to be "breathing" that is probably as simple as changing the actor's size repeatedly.
A lot of things I've found that seem really great on youtube when I'm lucky, most of the time end up broken links, so can't actually buy the tutorial or download anything. Would love to see us build a board of working links or just cool downloads you guys in the community may have come across or built yourself before. Thank you!

Hopscotch

@Game On Interactive

there is a thread like that already. Have a look:

http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/52494/spare-code-dump-it-here/p1

27 Pages full of glorious stuff from over the years.

Why is this not a sticky?

RowdyPants

@Game On Interactive Definitely check out that spare code thread!

@jamie_c reigns master supreme of particle special effects in GS land. His amazingly awesome Particle Effects Simulator tool is the best way to quickly create complex particle effects for use in your games.

Game On Interactive

Thank you guys, I figured there was something like this, I was just overlooking it!

Game On Interactive

@RowdyPants said:
@Game On Interactive Definitely check out that spare code thread!

@jamie_c reigns master supreme of particle special effects in GS land. His amazingly awesome Particle Effects Simulator tool is the best way to quickly create complex particle effects for use in your games.

@jamie_c I am Windows. Would I be able to buy this by chance?

RowdyPants

@Game On Interactive It's macOS only but Jamie does have a free limited browser version you can try out.

RowdyPants

@Game On Interactive As far as 'breathing' a character there are a couple approaches. You can interpolate the actor's height and width with behaviors or just show rendered out frames. One animation tool I enjoy is Core Animator. It features rigging, sub loops, locking, many easing options, and several export options including PNG sequences (you give it a frame rate and it'll calculate and draw the in between frames), MOV files (which can't be used in GS ), multiple sizes (@2x, @3x), and then the best part actual Swift or Objective-C code (for when you out grow GameSalad). Here's a quick little breathing fox I made with it.

Game On Interactive

@RowdyPants said:
@Game On Interactive As far as 'breathing' a character there are a couple approaches. You can interpolate the actor's height and width with behaviors or just show rendered out frames. One animation tool I enjoy is Core Animator. It features rigging, sub loops, locking, many easing options, and several export options including PNG sequences (you give it a frame rate and it'll calculate and draw the in between frames), MOV files (which can't be used in GS ), multiple sizes (@2x, @3x), and then the best part actual Swift or Objective-C code (for when you out grow GameSalad). Here's a quick little breathing fox I made with it.

sweet this is exactly along the lines of what i'm looking for. I know a bit of java and javascript, python, and stuff along those lines, I really need to get the time to learn C!

and again, unfortunately, I am left empty handed on the Core Animator as I don't have Mac =(

jamie_c

@RowdyPants, thanks for the mention and link. @Game On Interactive, I'm afraid that is only available for Macintosh since it was made using Gamesalad I don't have an option to make it a Windows application. As RowdyPants mentions there is a limited version on my website, but that is really intended as a demo I'm afraid.

Particles are not really hard to use, I have a free fire and smoke particle effect you can download and tear apart to learn how to use them if you'd like (http://www.imaginelabs.rocks/?product=fire-and-smoke-particle-effects). Also if you are interested I have a larger, paid, particle effect bundle you could check (http://www.imaginelabs.rocks/?product=professional-particle-effects-for-gamesalad)

Game On Interactive

@jamie_c sweet, understand and def appreciate the response. I am looking for things like a star kinda shooting across the screen after a bonus and stuff like that more in particular. I will def check out your particles bundle

jamie_c

Here is a little demo of one way to do some shooting stars. Click the star and it will spawn a bunch (20) that shoot around the screen. This doesn't use particles, just a 'regular' actor. It's simple but effective.

Game On Interactive

@jamie_c said:
Here is a little demo of one way to do some shooting stars. Click the star and it will spawn a bunch (20) that shoot around the screen. This doesn't use particles, just a 'regular' actor. It's simple but effective.

Sweet that could def be very useful! Appreciate it very much!