SHP max frame count?

kenosis · Posted: Tue May 12, 2015 10:28 pm Post subject: SHP max frame count?

I plan to make a huge animated billboard, the animation counts around 6500 frames without empty shadows. Can SHP Builder import a 13000 frame shp? Or can it copy 6500 empty frames to the animation?

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Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

I don't know about the limits, but if everything fails, you can still create 10 separate 1000 frames SHPs and then use Next= to connect them ingame.

Are you sure, so many frames are really necessary? Do you plan to show a complete movie on a drive-in cinema ingame?

With 6500 frames, you can show ingame a 4.3 minutes long animation (with 25 fps). Which player will ever look at the same billboard for such a long time?
During that, whole games have been won and lost.

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kenosis · Posted: Wed May 13, 2015 10:18 am Post subject:

it is limited to RAM. when i try to copy the same amount of empty frames it says out of memory

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Graion Dilach · Posted: Wed May 13, 2015 10:47 am Post subject:

Try Mixer instead?

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ApolloTD · Commander **Joined**: 19 Nov 2003

Mixer is better idea to try as only memory is the handicap here and shp builder isn't too efficient with memory (any large shps make it lag real bad). I sure hope its paletted already or the process is way heavier to import (thus slow).

Still amount of frames is quite high, may turn into performance problem (memory and game speed wise) even if works. I'd seriously rethink it a bit.

E1 Elite · General **Joined**: 28 May 2013

Max as of now - SHP Builder 9800 frames. XCC Mixer 1000 frames.

kenosis · Posted: Wed May 13, 2015 9:41 pm Post subject:

http://www.ppmforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=530093#530093
uploaded. Anyone interested can take a try.

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Mr.Hymn · Missile Trooper **Joined**: 01 May 2020

Interesting but mine is more complex I can't make it synchronize because I want the music and image run together and right now it's somehow if image not too slow or too fast, I can't get the acceptable medium. The game doesn't even know the rate in between 450-600

So if I put as 451-599 it counts as 600
450 is too slow
600 is too fast.

I have no idea how to get the gif from 25 fps to matching with this game. Its around 32 seconds long. From Aseprite and Photoshop it says 32 sec but in the game it plays like 20 seconds.

Mr.Hymn · Missile Trooper **Joined**: 01 May 2020

Interesting but mine is more complex I can't make it synchronize because I want the music and image run together and right now it's somehow if image not too slow or too fast, I can't get the acceptable medium. The game doesn't even know the rate in between 450-600

So if I put as 451-599 it counts as 600
450 is too slow
600 is too fast.

I have no idea how to get the gif from 25 fps to matching with this game. Its around 32 seconds long. From Aseprite and Photoshop it says 32 sec but in the game it plays like 20 seconds in total.