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Baldrick
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posted 25 January 2002 21:35     Click Here to See the Profile for Baldrick   Click Here to Email Baldrick        Reply w/Quote   
This may be a stupid question but with Nefarius' tutorial it said save all the torch ant .cl2 files as ANIMATED .GIF. What exactly do you mean by that. As far as I can see you mean save all the files as one file but I can't find a way to do that with CV5.

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Apocalypse Demon
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posted 25 January 2002 21:45     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
Save the .cl2 file to .gif.

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Baldrick
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posted 25 January 2002 22:53     Click Here to See the Profile for Baldrick   Click Here to Email Baldrick        Reply w/Quote   
But there's more than 1 .cl2 file.

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posted 25 January 2002 23:02     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
Save each .cl2 as an animated gif. Don't save each frame!!! For example, let's take the neutral .cl2. Just save the whole neutral .cl2 as a neutral .gif file. Then do the same for the attack, walk, etc. Once saved as .gifs, then you can edit them, reorganize frames, color them, etc.

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Baldrick
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posted 26 January 2002 12:00     Click Here to See the Profile for Baldrick   Click Here to Email Baldrick        Reply w/Quote   
Alright I tryed to save them as .gif yet CV5 wont let me. When I try it always brings up an error message and crashes. Also when I click on a .cl2 file it says "File type not supported!" even though I have the CVcl2.dll file.

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posted 26 January 2002 12:15     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
Download the newest version of Cv5 at their site(which can be found in the readme file).

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Baldrick
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posted 26 January 2002 12:54     Click Here to See the Profile for Baldrick   Click Here to Email Baldrick        Reply w/Quote   
I downloaded CV5 again but I still can't read .cl2 files. Pretty much all I can read is .dcc files. I even reinstalled Hellfire.

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posted 26 January 2002 13:01     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
What do you mean you can't read them? Just select them and double click, they should appear...

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Baldrick
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posted 26 January 2002 13:28     Click Here to See the Profile for Baldrick   Click Here to Email Baldrick        Reply w/Quote   
I mean it still says "file type not supported!" in CV5 and I can't save them as .gif. Is there anything else you need other than the CVcl2.dll file in the addons folder to make CV5 support .cl2 files?

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Apocalypse Demon
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posted 26 January 2002 13:45     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
There are TWO save buttons in CV5, use the other one.

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Baldrick
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posted 26 January 2002 14:13     Click Here to See the Profile for Baldrick   Click Here to Email Baldrick        Reply w/Quote   
Alright now I see. Thx for the help.

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Baldrick
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posted 26 January 2002 14:30     Click Here to See the Profile for Baldrick   Click Here to Email Baldrick        Reply w/Quote   
I still have the problem where when you click on it and look at the type it says "file type not supported!". Which means I can't open it to save it.

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posted 26 January 2002 14:45     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
I have no idea what's wrong with you or your cv5/files...can you tell me EXACTLY when you get this error. Is it right after you double click on the .cl2 to view it or is it when you press the save button or what?

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Baldrick
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posted 26 January 2002 15:01     Click Here to See the Profile for Baldrick   Click Here to Email Baldrick        Reply w/Quote   
When I just click on it once it says on the descriptions it says "type: file type not supported !". here's step to step what I did:
I downloaded CV5 and put it in my Diablo 2 modmaking folder
Put in the addons folder cvdcc.dll, cvcl2.dll, andf cvgif.dll
opened up cv5 and went to my Hellfire folder
Opened the hellfire.mpq and went to the spawn folder(I'm actually doing the Horkspawn for Foul Crows NOT Torch Ants)
Clicked once on spawna.cl2 and at the bottom of the screen it says for type "file type not supported !"
If I try double clicking it, it says "no frames selected !!!" and since I can't open it I can't save it.

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posted 26 January 2002 15:05     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
First off, the Horkspawns are already converted to .dcc format. Second, you need the addon and arcons and whatever folders all in the cv5 director. Your addons and archons folder should have many .dlls for every file type. Well, all I can say is when I double click on a .cl2 file, it shows up perfectly...

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Baldrick
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posted 26 January 2002 15:28     Click Here to See the Profile for Baldrick   Click Here to Email Baldrick        Reply w/Quote   
I know the Horkspawns are already converted and yes everythings in my CV5 folder.

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Baldrick
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posted 26 January 2002 16:19     Click Here to See the Profile for Baldrick   Click Here to Email Baldrick        Reply w/Quote   
Could you tell me step by step how YOU got CV5 to work. Perhaps i'll find something out if you do.

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posted 26 January 2002 16:36     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
To view animations:

1)Open Cv5
2)click on directories and folders to look for the files
3)double click on animation file
4)click "play"
5)animation runs

To save as .gif:

1)Open Cv5
2)click on directories and folders to look for the files
3)click on animation
4)click on the right save button
5)rename file and select .gif extention
6)click save

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Baldrick
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posted 26 January 2002 18:41     Click Here to See the Profile for Baldrick   Click Here to Email Baldrick        Reply w/Quote   
Nope as far as I can tell it should work. The only problem is it wont recognize .cl2 files. You don't need anything other than the cvcl2.dll to make it recognize them or support them, right?

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posted 27 January 2002 11:21     Click Here to See the Profile for Myhrginoc   Click Here to Email Myhrginoc        Reply w/Quote   
I have had that same problem reading CL2 files with CV5. I tried two versions of cvcl2.dll I downloaded from the CV website. Finally I downloaded CV3. That is an older version which works in much the same way but isn't a modular program so it can't use cvdcc.dll. I had no trouble making a GIF file out of a CL2 file...except I >am< having some issues making a DCC file that works, as I discussed here>>> http://dynamic2.gamespy.com/~phrozenkeep/ubb/Forum38/HTML/000210.html

So you might try CV3 to get your GIFs, but you might also get similar problems.

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Baldrick
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posted 27 January 2002 19:56     Click Here to See the Profile for Baldrick   Click Here to Email Baldrick        Reply w/Quote   
Well thanks for the imformation. I'll try that but it can't be today.

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posted 29 January 2002 18:41     Click Here to See the Profile for Baldrick   Click Here to Email Baldrick        Reply w/Quote   
Well it works as far as I can see! Thank you for the imformation again.

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