Hi all,
I was wondering what is the best way to go about using an animated splash screen?
Is it better to put a full movie, and use play movie function, or get whole bunch of screen shots as texture2d and play them in a sequence ?
Or maybe there is a new way to use an animated splash screen that i am not aware of!
I have always used a still image splash screen and trying to move on to a more professional look with animated one.
Well, the Default.png is non-negotiable. After that, a play movie is quite effective. It’s not uncommon for a movie to be better compressed than a single 24bit image.
However, simply put, you’re basically just delaying the user from using the app at this point.
A sequence of still images would give you dreadful compression (and would probably take a while to load), so I’d advise against that one.
As a player i’d like to put my vote in against movies on start as they will stop the audio on anything i’m already listening to (music,podcasts,streaming radio).
Company logo as the Default.png splash screen and -out-. Anything longer than that pisses me off 
Thanks for the replys, i guess I would use the movie to promote the game then, and maybe also has it as a menu item were the player can watch the movie if he wells.