I have only briefly attempted this, but it feels like I could waste a ton of time not choosing the easiest method. The basic product:
I need a fullscreen "grid" of social media pictures (30 at most) taken from an Inception Social RSS feed, and have them change individually at random times to other random images in the feed of some unknown amount of images. The random elements need not be actually random. Sponsor images need to used at reliable intervals to please the powers that be. See
https://vimeo.com/86381910 for what spawned this request.
I simply want to know how different people would approach it. I could be way off, but here are my scattered thoughts so far:
My general plan is to create a series of slabs that can rotate revealing the image on the back, then change the image on the front before it is revealed again. I have played with Visual Logic to produce a RNG that selects from all available images, but using actual random creates an issue with getting sponsor images on screen for reliable amounts of time. When I attempted to use a predefined series of images I became concerned about the fact that there could be 20 or 200 different images, and how to choose between them.
As far as rotating different images at "random" times, I am undecided between making several animation controllers that are ran at various times, or maybe using timers somehow. Or perhaps I just do everything in a GIANT scene director loop.
My apologies for the haphazard question.
-Brian