Animated ships ?

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Is it possible to have animated ships by adding a second frame for each facing of the ship ?
I would like to see ships with blinking lights for example.
I know that it means doubling the memory allocated for each ship just for a fancy light effect.

I tested it changing the code for the image of the ship to:
<Image imageID="&rsSapphireYacht;" imageX="0" imageY="0" imageWidth="48" imageHeight="48" imageFrameCount="2" imageTicksPerFrame="10"/>

but it seems that transcendence use only the first "column" of frames, so the ship blinks disappearing.
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yes it is! check the old mods on Xelerus for an example, i believe it is called Animated UFO i'll have the link in a few minutes

EDIT: http://xelerus.unrealcrystal.com/oldmods/ Animated UFO
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yes ! it works ! (it was a typo in my mod)
Thanks bobby !
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