Animated Life Icons

[H Y P E R]

Is it possible, with a SOC, to make life icons,
character select pics, etc animate?

 

[Joat]

I’m pretty sure that cannot be done.

 

[Zion Crayson]

If that's not possible, then what about changing icons during super, like with Sonic, and for that matter, while it's straying from the topic, is it possible to make a superform float without comprimising abilities, like Super Sonic?

 

[Joat]

I’m fairly certain those parts are hard-coded.

 

[fox boy]

why would you wanna animate a life icon anyway....

 

[Princess Plushima]

why would you wanna animate a life icon anyway....

I can think of a number of reasons.


That said, the life icon is not a sprite, but a patch. Meaning the game handles it completely differently. At best you might be able to hijack some other part of the HUD (The little X next to the life icon, the word SCORE) make it look like the second frame, and use a script with RUNSOC to rapidly switch between SOCs that would hide one frame, and put the other in its place. But that's a horrible workaround, and probably wouldn't work in netplay.

In short: not really.



Oh, and as for all that fancy SuperSonic stuff. All of it's hardcoded, and designed specifically to give SuperSonic an advantage over all other characters.