breaking brick animation

[bnanns]

does anyone have or know where I can get a decent animation for a breaking brick.

[Warmachine]

well dude, i know something that could work, but depending on how much you use mmf2 it may be overly complicated. try doing this; take your brick picture, select a part of the brick, for example like if the brick looks like its made up of pieces like they are in mario bros, take one of the sections and create an active object of just the section, then make an event like this (but not identical :grin

- create (brick piece) at 0,0 from (brick)

on the brick piece properties, uncheck the box "visible at start"

then assign the brick piece to something like pinball movement.

the next part will depend on HOW you make the brick break. lets use the mario bros example again.

(mario) collides with (brick) = make visible, start movement

the make visible, start movement part needs to be added to the brick piece object.

whats happening is, the brick pieces is invisible UNTIL it breaks. The breaking part in this example happens with mario collides with the brick. when the collision happens, the piece will fly away in a random direction and fall. the falling part has to do with the fact that you have assigned the piece a "Pinball Movement" property, so it has speed and gravity and all the goods to make the piece fall naturally. hope this helps! :cool:

EDIT: i forgot to mention, you need to assign this event also:

collision between (mario) and (brick) = destroy

the destroy part makes the original brick disappear once you hit it. also, if you want all kinds of pieces, just copy and paste the brick pieces how ever many times you need them, then it will look like it shatters