I'm currently working on a project for an online game. The problem is, I've not done any animation or special effects in MMF simply because I've never needed to - until now, so I have zero skill in this area

I'm trying to create a simple effect as seen in a game which was released by Team17 back in 2001 I belive. It's Worms Blast. For those of you that have played the game - it's the "Vs." screen that's shown just before a match between the Player&CPU is to begin.

For those of you who've not played: It's simply an entire screen with two color overlays populating one half of the screen. For example, the left side of the screen: Red. The right side: Blue.

These two colors are Semi-transparent, under this, is a pinwheel that spins in alpha tones, which creates the patterns underneath, but the colors change as it hits the different semi-transparent sheets covering either half of the screen.

The problem in my example is bad performance, and low FPS when you have other objects on the screen. I need a more reliable way to do it.

I hope you can understand that, as I've confused myself. All help is very much appreciated.

Here's a small and basic example I created: http://www.neptunels.com/private/test.zip

Look forward to your ideas and assistance.