How does Riot do living pictures?

Samflash3·Feb 15, 2015·1 votes·1,145 views

Like take Braum's login. I get the snow falling bit. But Braum breathing, the clothes that he's wearing moving. How?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-Lr4hJEPSE

5 Comments

ShínyFeb 15, 20153 votes

So the official term is motion graphics and they use a mix of photoshop and adobe aftereffects . Here's a cool video that shows behind the scenes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bXtXtmRwdE

HitmarkerMerkFeb 15, 20151 votes

A gif allows frames in an image. Basic answer, but I do not and highly doubt they're using gifs.

Samflash3Feb 15, 20151 votes

Although I don't think they'd redraw the same image just slightly distorted. Or would they?

HitmarkerMerkFeb 15, 20151 votes

Na, that was just a basic response, I did some digging and found some more. Riot uses .dds files. Basically it mix of photoshop and etc compressed into one file. Here google link for ya.

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=what+is+a+dds+file&spell=1

Also, if you wish to locate the file here you go this is the directory as Riot Game as root(Basically just find where you install league and go from there): Riot Games\League of Legends\RADS\projects\lol_game_client\releases\0.0.1.17\deploy\DATA\Images