Grr...

[Aquador]

Since Lua doesnt support freaken Gif


Does anyone know of an animated gif to png converter? That keeps the animation goin?

Im using a program called pivot to make my gifs and it doesnt allow me to save as png so yeah...and its super easy to use unlike official gif animators, so yeah....

[Ninjax1]

Thats impossible.

[Xodiac21]

wait.do u want the .png to show as an animation? if so then i won't worrk...
you would have to code the "animation or whatever...

but u can change a .gif and view all it's frames in macromedia fireworks 8

[PSPduh]

Originally Posted by Aquador

Since Lua doesnt support freaken Gif


Does anyone know of an animated gif to png converter? That keeps the animation goin?

Im using a program called pivot to make my gifs and it doesnt allow me to save as png so yeah...and its super easy to use unlike official gif animators, so yeah....

1.) Can you post a link to this "pivot" b/c I've been trying to find an animation gif thing for a while now.

2.) I'm not sure if png's can be animated.

[Aquador]

Nooo, what I want is to convert an animated gif to png, and the png wont be a still image, but still be animated like the gif


If pngs cant be animated then how are you suppose to get animated things in lua games?


And just google search pivot, its super easy to use.

[Xodiac21]

Originally Posted by Aquador

Nooo, what I want is to convert an animated gif to png, and the png wont be a still image, but still be animated like the gif


If pngs cant be animated then how are you suppose to get animated things in lua games?


And just google search pivot, its super easy to use.

no png's wont show animated....
to do aimations in lua u gotta code it urself.

[Aquador]

oh, ok...

[Yeldarb]

Yeah, what you are looking for is converting an animated .gif to a png sequence. Then you'll have to use each image as a "frame" for your animation. Load them all into an array and loop through it.

This may help if you need some guidance: http://www.psp-programming.com/dev-f...ight=animation

[Xodiac21]

here's a 3 frame animation loop

sprite[1] = Image.load("blah")
sprite[2] = Image.load("blah")
sprite[3] = Image.load("blah")
x = 1

while true do
x = x + 1
screen:blit(0,0,sprite[x])
if x == 3 then
x = 1
end
screen.waitVblankStart(de lay between each frame)
screen.flip()
end

[delight1]

i thought there were ones that could...
apegs
http://annevankesteren.ni/2004/08/apeg

[Aquador]

Egh, ok, I can do that, no problem.

But I think its kind of stupid. Lua is suppose to be easy, games alteast need animations and if it could just support gif, that would make things sooooo much easier.

[Yeldarb]

Unfortunately gif is a proprietary format, just like mp3.

[Aquador]

What do you mean by that?

[Xodiac21]

Proprietary formats are developed by software companies in order to encode data produced by their applications: only the software produced by a company who owns the specification of a file format will be able to read correctly and completely the data contained in this file.

.....gif = proprietary
.....png = open format

Originally Posted by xodiac21

Proprietary formats are developed by software companies in order to encode data produced by their applications: only the software produced by a company who owns the specification of a file format will be able to read correctly and completely the data contained in this file.

Nice google..XD!

[Xodiac21]

Originally Posted by TheMarioKarters

Nice google..XD!

wha? do u think i lack the social statur...sumthan to....

ok so i googled

[Slasher]

Make yourself a sprite sheet with all the images in the world, then use it. That's how it's done.

[soadnation]

instead of using a bunch of if statments couldnt you just use a for loop? or am i juist wrong?

[SG57]

Originally Posted by xodiac21

no png's wont show animated....
to do aimations in lua u gotta code it urself.

Easy...Both C and LUA animations are pretty easy if you plan how you will od it for about 5 ish minutes.

[PSPduh]

duh = Timer.new()
duh2 = duh:time()
duh:start()

sprite[1] = Image.load("blah")
sprite[2] = Image.load("blah")
sprite[3] = Image.load("blah")
x = 1
a = 1

while true do
if duh2 == 100 then
x = x + a
duh:reset(0)
end

if x == 3 then
x = 1
end

screen:blit(0,0,sprite[x])

Basically the same thing as xodiacs21's but a tad bit different because it has a timer. That would do it every one second. It wouldn't matter either way.

[youresam]

Originally Posted by delight1

i thought there were ones that could...
apegs
http://annevankesteren.ni/2004/08/apeg

You mean APNGs?
I was actually going to create APNGs to be used with animationlib, but a google search turns out they actually exist..with the same extension!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG

[Grimfate126]

Originally Posted by youresam

You mean APNGs?
I was actually going to create APNGs to be used with animationlib, but a google search turns out they actually exist..with the same extension!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG

o, BTW how IS animationlib coming along?i cant wait.

[youresam]

Originally Posted by Grimfate126

o, BTW how IS animationlib coming along?i cant wait.

(This smily pretty much answers your question)