Hi All,

I hope this is the right forum for this question.

I would like to generate a realistic rolling ball that has texture (e.g. a ball with a pattern on it, think of a marble)

The problem is I want to do it for possibly many different textures at once.

So I'm looking for good ideas.

Corona lacks true 3d object so I can't create it 'properly' (wrapping a texture around a ball)

I think a sprite sheet with sufficient sprites should give me what I want but I'm a little worried about how many sprites are required to give me effect I want (I want it to look really realistic)

I also though to play around with masking (and moving the mask faster than the image) which sort of worked to give the appearance of movement but fails if you want your ball to be opaque.

So I'm sort of thinking I'm stuck with sprite sheets for each ball/marble I want to display -- Is that the best option?

-John