(11-02-2022, 05:20 PM)james2464 Wrote: I have a question about this. How much of a programming brain teaser would it be to make the balls roll? I'm guessing it would be animated sprites and not circles but I have no idea, really.It could take a few sprites if the balls were all one color. Easier for the balls higher than eight, and hardest for the cue ball. Might have to depend on an "imperfection" of the cue ball so it doesn't look like one extreme or the other, a crystal ball or a snow ball. The same thing eg. for the 8-ball except for the etched number. If the user also expects the numbers on the colored balls to display in animation then it would be a couple more sprites per ball to arrange it.
Somebody who knows about physics and three-dimensional visuals could show a billiards table from the top, with the light on one side, and arrange animation involving the shadows the balls create.