Looks interesting (tried the middle one; star shaped without blur). Looks interesting but it's Tiy's decission. Would allow us to draw some nice fire trails though.

I think, like the first one, as the other ones are to much ol'worms flames, (I never really like 'em)

Nice work

#2 or #3 are being used in 0.9.14

+1

I would like to seea an original game, tought based in Worms, but not one which seems too alike.

Well the #1 is just a flare, I'm not really loving that one because of the bad animation consistency.

Anyway, it seems a big concern is the similarity to worms. Well i did some more flames.

In the album you'll find:
* the ol' first 3 (1 flares, 2 worms-style quad-flames)
* 3 regular flames with different blending. I used different blending to avoid the fake overlapping of reds and yellows. Anyway, it's just not easy to make good flames with sprites like this. Probably, the best one is the first of these 3.
* A couple of fancy-looking flames (with red for hot colors, which is the inverse of the natural way, and azure flames (i'm a fan of azure flames )) but these are just for your fun.
* A very cool walking flame XD
* And finally, something in the worms style, but with 3 spots instead of 4, they look pretty different.

Hope you like them
~Aki

If the numbe of frames is an issue for you, feel free to add more on the bottom of the existing image.

I can't download the new flames.png and get it to work from google code.... I get an error after replacing the old one... I don't know what to do :S

Mabye you downloaded a downscaled version? Make sure you open the image first so it shows at 100%.

Oh, nice! Just to know, where are set parameters like frame size, frames count and frame rate? I would like to try some new things...

Thanks
~Aki

I like flame 7.
It looks like a nasty lil' fireball

I wanted to try flames with sparkles, just uploaded the 11th image with sparkles.

I like it, but it's really cartoon-style. Would be great to have spark particles in the graphic engine, but I guess that if isn't already implemented in the upcoming versions - being a minor thing to do - I'll will not patch the code shortly.

Anyway, hope you like it

~Aki

Number 11# Seems very nice, I really like it. Indeed, would be great to have a more realistic fire, as you said, and as seem in Worms Reloaded...

Nice Job!!

Thanks MXO. Fire is almost all about particles. I just watched carefully some worms reloaded movies and I noticed how improved is the fire effect.

Some fire effects are done pretty well, with particles fountains from the ground up, and also a little explosion effect when the fire touches the ground. Just having those 2 additional effects, with different sprites, would produce a better effect.

Anyway, in the 0.9.14 preview the fire effects of hedgewars looks improved... But such details - which may be essential for game's good looking - involves many things, as PC capabilities, computational power, libraries support, etc.

~Aki

Updated the fire in the dev version again with some (realigned) sprites from above yesterday. If you're able to, test run it.

Awesome!

Another Flamesprite:

Nice sprite, but it looks a bit wormish...
Nah, it's a great one .