Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 5:04 pm Post subject:
Impor of GIF leads to overlapping frames
In short. when I import a gif file the first frame comes good but the later ones are displayed over it like overlapping. Like looking at an infantry unit that looks at the same time in all directions. Tried it with various gif so I guess the gif files are ok.
One advice I got was unchecking shadows. They are unchecked by default and I am quite sure it ain't shadow related since when I add shadows its a different effect. Is the import of GIF files actually supported? To show all frames automatically correct? How do I get the frames to show correctly and not overlapping? Thx in advance. QUICK_EDIT
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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 5:14 pm Post subject:
There are two different gif setups out there as far as I'm concerned. One has all the frames on top of each other (like an SHP) and on the other, every frame has a different size and what you see are always the current frame's layer on top of the first frame.
The first one gets imported properly, the latter isn't. Best result you can have is to google out a freeware GIF-> PNG converter or something. Even GIMP needs a lot of mess to fix the latter way. QUICK_EDIT
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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 5:43 pm Post subject:
Probably yes, I wasn't the creator of the gifs where I've seen the latter way of saving. And if it's once saved in the latter way, it needs the haywire to get fixed if the loading routine didn't do it... or to hunt one which's loading routine fixes it. QUICK_EDIT
I always use Photoshop to make and edit animated gifs and there's a checkbox to either enable or disable transparency in the 'Save for web' dialog (it's enabled by default). _________________ QUICK_EDIT
hey hey just learned something new. So a png can be animated sweet. Will try with png instead. _________________ Free Tibed!
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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 7:49 pm Post subject:
In case of GIF->PNG converters... many of those actually creates a png of every frame.
(GIMP can do APNG IIRC btw) _________________ "If you didn't get angry and mad and frustrated, that means you don't care about the end result, and are doing something wrong." - Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 8:43 pm Post subject:
Probably. And probably this is why I know better your issue than even yourself.
iow, since you wouldn't get it otherwise: no and I know it as well that it's buggy as hell... you should export it to png frames first with a third-party tool then import that. As I already said. QUICK_EDIT
yup I got that one and am on it. Well to be honest I am at trying out the third tool and well even that one is crap. Just splits a GIF into nonanimated PNG. Aw well guess I just import the single png files and then make a frame sequence out of them. May try later with other tools.
The Import definitely has potential I hope the devs of OS SHP will iron it out
Thx for the help
ow noes, the new png files don't end with .png in the name... I gotta rename them all.
I share the gif for the unlikely case that anyone else is also up to give it a try as well. Source is mostly Metal Slug and random findings at google search.
Joined: 22 Nov 2010 Location: Iszkaszentgyorgy, Hungary
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 1:56 am Post subject:
To speed up stuff in the future... Total Commander has a Batch Rename option in the File menu which can be very useful sometimes (I use it for sound renaming from crap to understandable or at frame reorg during Civ3 conversions). QUICK_EDIT
Many thanks Bittah Commander they come really in handy.
Made a few tests and released one in the media hut. There is however some issues.
The name has to begin with 0000 for the first frame and there must be no space so when the sequence begins with:
explosion 0001 doesn't work.
explosion0000 explosion0001 explosion0002 does.
On some gif which do not have a white background the shp ingame does have one. Really weird since neither Paint.net nor OS SHP nor any other program of mine shows this background but ingame on some gif its there.
Forgot about Total Commander, got that floating around somewhere. QUICK_EDIT
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Impor of GIF leads to overlapping frames
