Animated Title Screens in XP?

[someperson]

Is it possible to have an animated title screen in XP since it won't accept gifs? If so, tell me how and if its a script, give me the script. Thanks.

 

[regi]

There are two ways you can do this, but both require scripts.

1. You can request a specific script for animating title screens. I haven't found one made yet but if you want I can move this to Script Requests for you.

2. Using this script, you can have the player start on an animated map. In that map you can try using an event on Autorun that shows consecutive pictures every frame for an animated effect. Time-consuming, but it'll work.

 

[someperson]

Well if it has to be scripted then go ahead and move it.

And i'll go with the 1st idea. The 2nd one can run into many problems.

 

[khmp]

Specifically what do you mean by animated? Are you referring the command window? The background? Something that will go on top of the background? And has nothing to do with either the title screen background or the command window?

 

[someperson]

I mean animated as if you imported a title screen picture but it would be animated like an animated gif. XP doesn't take gifs so I was wondering if there was another way to do this.

 

[khmp]

Alright so just the background.

#==============================================================================
# ** Scene_Title
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#  This class performs title screen processing.
#==============================================================================

class Scene_Title
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # * Constant Variables
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Swap_Frames = 30
  
  # Don't mess with the one below this line.
  Titles = Dir["Graphics/Titles/*.{png,bmp,jpg,jpeg}"]
  Titles.each_index { |i| Titles[i] = Titles[i].split('/').last }.sort!
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # * Alias Methods
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  alias sope_animatedtitle_scene_title_update update
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # * Frame Update                                                    !ALIAS!
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def update
    # Declare the timer if it doesn't exist.
    @timer = Swap_Frames if @timer.nil?
    @title_index = 0 if @title_index.nil?
    # Reset the background and the timer when it reaches 0
    if @timer <= 0
      @title_index += 1
      @title_index = 0 if @title_index == Titles.size
      @timer = Swap_Frames
      @sprite.bitmap = RPG::Cache.title(Titles[@title_index])
    end
    @timer -= 1
    sope_animatedtitle_scene_title_update
  end
end

Ok so the most important thing is how title images are ordered in the Titles directory. 0.png will come before 1.png Title-001.png will come before Title-002.png etc. So make sure you have the ordered properly. Preferably numerically. But you could also use a, b, c etc. Also make sure your title screen is set to the very first frame of animation. Otherwise it won't look fluid. Uhhh at the top is a constant called "Swap_Frames" play around with that number to get different results.

Lastly to install create an empty section above "Main" in the script listings and paste the code in above. I hope that helps.

 

[someperson]

Hey it works perfectly. Thanks man. I put your name in the script so I can remember who to credit later.  :smile:

 

[Zackwell]

Is there any way of making the Images fade into each other? rather than just flicking?

 

[hellhound]

There's also MOG's Animated title screen script which is found here:

http://www.rmxp.org/forums/index.php?topic=18933.0