dxDrawAnimatedCircle

[.:HyPeX:.]

Hello everyone, today i came across radians, sin, cos and stuff, and in a start i tried to make smth like this...

But in-game prototipes were awful, so keeped playing, and finished doing a function for making animated circles but with lines... (Since using circles again proved extremly laggy aswell )

I asked my friend MVM to record it for a clear demonstration of the animation...

PD: This is just a test script, it contains a basic loop of the function with this:

  
local start = getTickCount() 
addEventHandler("onClientRender", root, function() 
local duration = 15000 
local now = getTickCount() 
local End = start + duration 
local elapsed = now -start 
local progress = elapsed / duration 
  
if progress >= 1 then 
start = getTickCount() 
end 
  
dxDrawAnimatedCircle(progress) 
  
end) 

I had no idea what to do with this so if it is usefull, please tell me, if you want the function pm me on skype @tsbreuer

[ChaosMTA]

Interesting Script, good job.

Would always help the community to post your resource on the community site.

[Gallardo9944]

Instead of updating it every frame, you could draw it in your render target and update it only when it actually changes. That would save some frames if it doesn't change very often.

[myonlake]

Interesting Script, good job.

Would always help the community to post your resource on the community site.

Been on Wiki for a year now: https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/DxDrawCircle

[.:HyPeX:.]

Interesting Script, good job.

Would always help the community to post your resource on the community site.

Been on Wiki for a year now: https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/DxDrawCircle

In a start i used that to write draw the small circles in the first prototype, proved too laggy and not so good looking, so i rewrote mine down again to skip using that function

Instead of updating it every frame, you could draw it in your render target and update it only when it actually changes. That would save some frames if it doesn't change very often.

How so?

  
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Edited November 30, 2014 by Guest

[Saml1er]

Why not render an image if this is too laggy.

[.:HyPeX:.]

Why not render an image if this is too laggy.

Actually, my final code isnt laggy, tested it with some really slow PCs. The prototype was lagging becouse it was drawing ~ 100 circles wich were made of about 20 dxDrawLine themselves.