I like the 5 frame animation better, but it's really hard to tell as the two animations are very similar in quality. I think it's a great improvement over the old animation, nice work! I do have a couple suggestions for how it could be improved though.

1) The parts of the flame that jump up above the main fire stand out because they don't seem to have the same level of detail in the shading of the flames at the base. Particularly the large orange sections in the middle of the flame bursts seem almost "cartoonish" in comparison with the flame at the base. In this resepect, I feel your older animation was superior because it did not suffer this problem. Fixing it might be as simple as just increasing the level of shading in these branching flames and reducing the amount of contiguous sections of one color.

2) This is incredibly minor, but it seems a little odd to me that the flames jump up to the same height on the sides of the fire as they do in the center. Do a google image search for "camp fire" and maybe you'll see what I mean looking through some of the photos there. The fire is sort of shaped like an upside-down cone. The highest reaching flames are formed from the center of the fire, and the apex height gradually drops as you get further out from the center.

I'm planning to make extensive use of this animation in the next release of Allacrost as well. I'm going to make an edit it to to remove the wood underneath so that it can be used for setting the top of anything on fire, such as a building or tree.

Hi Zabin,

Those animations are pretty awesome! :) Congrats!

What Roots said in the two points is correct, while I wonder if by simply decreasing the time of the frame which is "oversizing" the flame, the odd feeling could simplu go away.

We should share and work commonly on the flames since it's pretty common thing to have, in every 2d games around there, btw. :)

Best regards,

Awesome, I love your improvements. I'm pulling the latest version into a new tileset I'm making for now. Do you expect to be making any further changes to the base of the fire? If not, I'll get to work on an alteration that removes the firewood so that it can be placed upon anything to make it look like it's on fire.

Okay, I made the edit and I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out. Only took me about 5 minutes. I tried an animation rate of 200ms per frame because the 150ms looked just a tad too fast to me. But 200ms looks a tad too slow. So maybe 175ms is the magic number to try?

One thing I noticed as I worked closely with this animation is that the base of the fire doesn't animate much at alll. This is fine, but it might look slightly more awesome if the inner white circle were to expand and contract slightly during the animation. That might be a lot of work to get it to look right though and I'm not sure if it's worth the effort involved.

It doesn't look nearly smooth enough. I have great difficulty tracing the movements/transformations of particular strokes of fire, it looks like sets of strokes just replacing other sets of strokes, rather than persistent strokes of flame moving upward. A lot more frames and shorter frame times (~70ms?) would help, with most stuff moving like 1-pixel-a-frame, not jumping rapidly. I'd omit the pink color that's darker than orange, I'd omit all outline-like things. Also the shapes of strokes could be more fire-like, not just squiggle like worms; eg look at the "bursting" shapes & transformations of the strokes of fire here:

<- by Rhyging5 on the Wesnoth forums

Using this in an LPC-based game - it fits in nicely!

I really like this animation, I would love to use this in my d20 tabletop game but I'm not sure how to do that.    When I save the file it just seems to be a static image.    I don't have any experience with these animated files, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.    Sorry for the noob hijack.

Hi @Zabin,

I'll add and use the campfire in the next few days, can't wait to finish show the next part of the story :)

@Drogo It depends on what game engine you're using. Atm i'm using Haafs Game Engine and it has a built in function hgeAnim. You can declare each of the frames positions and fps etc. 

@Zabin This animation looks great! I've just started making my own rpg and this is going to be perfect for it. Thanks!

I'm gonna use it on an Android App Game !

This animation is realy great, that was exactly what I a was looking for. It surely will be used in a cinematic for my game.

Thanks a lot !

Thanks

Qué buen fuego

I will use it on a steam Game , it is gonna take a while though...

( side-scroller hack n slash ) I would also like to ask if you would be willing to cooperate with me...

I am not that good at pixel art, but i am good and getting better at creating 8 bit music that would fit with your games. If you are interested just reply and ill mail you more details...

Thanks for making a fire like this!  I'm searching for a fire like this, I will put this fire in my game :D

i put your art in my game , you can check it out here : 

Play the game in this link :) 

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/697628

please rate my game  :)  thank you for this wonderful art .

God bless 

Sorry I put a wrong link, This is the link  http://dontmind8.blogspot.com/2017/08/get-out-of-hell.html  :D

Hi Zabin!

I really like your campfire! But I also want a unfire campfire, I mean unignited logs, because make it fire in game is more visual-powerful thing! I hope you could make it, or just post a stacked logs, that would be helpful too. Thanks!

Hi there.
I'm use this package in my new game: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.WorldOfOneHero.KnifeKa...

Nice animation. I am using it in my game.

Game Name: BadAsh

Game is available in Google Playstore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.acegamer.badash

See gameplay here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBYDVMpAeJ4

Credit page is work in progress, will add credit then. Thanks

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