I am in the process of building a c#, ASP.NET web fighting game and I have come up against a problem. The game has fights that take place between two teams of 5 and we want to "show the battle" using small icons for the different fighters and such. The original idea was to use &#106avascript to make the images hop around in a sort of disjointed way to simulate movement and actions. While this may be feasible it seemed a little clunky. My friend came up with the idea of generating a small directX based movie clip that would show the fight and allow for cleaner movement and maybe even some simple effects. The problem with that idea is size...the movie clip would, most likely, be too large to show on the screen in a reasonable amount of time. So the question is...has anyone ever tried to do any sort of "animation" in a web page? I don't want to have to post back because that would cause a flickering nightmare of a mess, so it basically has to be client side. And I also want to stay away from a downloadable client. I was just wondering what sort of ideas anyone had. I apologize if this isn't in the right forum. I was looking for a web game forum, but the only web forum seems to contain a bunch of PHP and HTML questions, and my question didn't seem to fit. Thanks again, David

I'm not so sure, but maybe Flash would work well for this? It always seems smooth. Also a java applet could do it, but I know these stray from your current development tools.

I have thought about Flash...but I don't know if I have the patience to use it. I have done some flash work and it usually takes soooo unbelievably long to do even something simple.

That might be the way to go...but I hope not :)

David

Flash would obviously be the best way or perhaps a java applet.

The best way IMO would be to use a Flash front-end for the graphics and ASP.NET XML Web Services to control the game logic. The latest Flash MX version has components to talk directly to Web Services easily.