REQ: animated .gif script?

[77]

using the default "pictures" folder...

itd make my life so much easier if i could use animated .gif files, using the default "show picture" event...
(to use for faces next to the text box)
http://escanabasucks.com/junk/screen.jpg
i want the guy in the lower left to animate...

i tried animated .png but that does not work...
animated .gif are easy to create, so its a good way to cheat and get stuff done for newbies...

 

[Skyla Doragono]

Scripters have been working for a very long time to have animated .gif be usable in RMXP.  It's just not possible; I think someone said once about it being a hidden RGSS class that they can't change.  Sorry bud.

 

[kryptonator]

Scripting wouldn't solve the problem of gif visibility as it is the engine itself that doesn't allow gifs, not rgss.

But then again I may be wrong.

A way around it would be to get video creating software and make your animated gif into an avi video and use one of the movie player scripts.

 

[Gubid]

A possible solution to this would be to read each frame of the gif and save that to a bitmap in memory, then animate it using the Animate This! script or manually if you know how, but dont ask me how to read each image of a gif to a bmp.

 

[Ninjitsu]

Scripting wouldn't solve the problem of gif visibility as it is the engine itself that doesn't allow gifs, not rgss.

I thought scripts controlled the engine?

 

[77]

ill use frame by frame .png... i dont care...

anything, how!?

 

[Marcel_Makkink]

You could use Jasc Animation Shop to read gif's then place every picture in a bitmap, save seperately and animate them, by script or the database, your choice.

 

[77]

yah thats what i wanted to do but i dont know how...
i tried by events, show picture - wait 5 frames - show picture - wait 5 frames... ect...
but the text box messes up the timing...
unless you can do 2 events at the same time... one for the animation and one for the text?

 

[Marcel_Makkink]

You could request a script for the animating of the picture and the processing scene.

 

[lordsith]

I found this on a popular japenese web site i think it should help you out

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[77]

its japanese... hmmm dont think its gonna work for me =/

 

[Sic Semper Tyranosaurus]

its japanese... hmmm dont think its gonna work for me =/

Many computers speak Japanese, even if you don't.

 

[77]

ill play around, see if i can figure out how to use it...

 

[lordsith]

In the demo post with it you'll see how it work, it's really simple

 

[77]

yah i tried the demo, added my own animated gif, and no luck...

 

[Gubid]

OK, the script works like this.  You create an event and call a script. 
You can simply... image = GIFSprite.new(nil, x,y,loops)
then you set the image bitmap to the gif.  image.bitmap = "GIF/filename.gif"
That should be it, but you may have to set x,y again as they did in the demo by doing.. image.x/image.y = whatever.

That should handle it.  the GIF/ is a folder in the project dir called GIF.  and filename.gif is the name of the GIF file.

BTW - thanks for this lordsith.  Very useful indeed.

 

[regi]

If that doesn't work, I believe ccoa's UMS has a way to play animated facesets, but you gotta make frame by frame .pngs...

Although, I think she took it off this forum when she left...

 

[77]

i think i know whats goin on...
the gifs i MAKE arent working... you must have to make them a certain way, i think paintshop animation shop 3 is too antique...
ill have to try something else

anyone else having this problem?

 

[77]

anything new running around?

still cant get a animated gif to work... =/

 

[77]

whats the proper way to make an animated gif that will work with that script?