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Topic: Who is converting which monsters?
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Novus Knight

Posts: 71 From: Minneapolis, MN Registered: Jan 2002 |
posted 26 January 2002 22:13
I'd love to learn. If someone has already gone through it is there anything we should know, or any tricks to use.I forgot to remove the shadows from some of my conversion (like ALL the orcs). So I'll be updating those soon. Sorry. (unless they look okay) ------------------ Ratsbane

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Alkalund Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 964 From: Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil Registered: Apr 2001 |
posted 26 January 2002 22:19
Ok people I've finished the Ravager, just tested it and it is working OK, except for the usual flickering in one direction (jesus, will that never go away? ). I'll upload it to my site as soon as I can. I just hope no one has done the Ravager already...------------------ Alkalund

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Apocalypse Demon Moderator
   
Posts: 4023 From: Mississauga, Ontario Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 26 January 2002 22:32
Ok this flicker, does the animation turn off and flash or does a box suddenly flicker around the animation(which suggests improper color background editing). Upload them and let me test.------------------ God gave me a brain to use but I miserably failed to use it to my advantage

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Alkalund Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 964 From: Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil Registered: Apr 2001 |
posted 26 January 2002 22:38
Ok the Ravager was uploaded to my page.Apocalypse Demon, it's not a problem with the background, it is that vanishing effect I told you about the other day. Take a look and see if you can see what is causing it. ------------------ Alkalund

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Apocalypse Demon Moderator
   
Posts: 4023 From: Mississauga, Ontario Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 26 January 2002 22:41
Your site is messed up... Anyways, downloading them right now. Oh, and when you got that flickering, who did you replace in the first place?------------------ God gave me a brain to use but I miserably failed to use it to my advantage

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Alkalund Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 964 From: Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil Registered: Apr 2001 |
posted 26 January 2002 22:46
I replaced it with the yeti in the outer cloister.Well, my "homepage" is surely not well organized , but I hope it is working, because I can't seem to refresh it, some problem with the building's internal server here I think. ------------------ Alkalund

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Baz Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 687 From: The Netherlands Registered: Nov 2001 |
posted 27 January 2002 01:02
Hey Alkalund, every time I try to download a file from your page, my DAP says the file is 0 bytes big. When I open the zip file, it says that the file is incomplete or damaged. Why do only I get this message?------------------ Give me fuel, give me fire, give me all that I desire

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Alkalund Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 964 From: Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil Registered: Apr 2001 |
posted 27 January 2002 08:41
I don't know, but I guess my host does not allow downloading files with DAP. Just click on the file, it shall work then. I'll see why download managers are not allowed.------------------ Alkalund

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Novus Knight

Posts: 71 From: Minneapolis, MN Registered: Jan 2002 |
posted 27 January 2002 10:27
Are there any multi-part animations left to be done? I tried the large red dragon which I think has already been done and it was kinda fun. So if anyone has a suggestion for a multi-part anim? Let me know.  ------------------ Ratsbane

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Baz Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 687 From: The Netherlands Registered: Nov 2001 |
posted 27 January 2002 10:50
OK, that was it Alkalund. thnx for the files (they are COOL)------------------ Give me fuel, give me fire, give me all that I desire

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Alkalund Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 964 From: Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil Registered: Apr 2001 |
posted 27 January 2002 11:22
Yeah Baz, they're cool, the animation guys from Bioware are great!! I love their work, I can barely wait unitl Neverwinter Nights is finally out  Hey Novus, were the Fire Giants done already? Theý have multiple parts (well, just body and weapons actualy )'. ------------------ Alkalund

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Apocalypse Demon Moderator
   
Posts: 4023 From: Mississauga, Ontario Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 27 January 2002 11:44
Ok, there is a HUGE dragon still that's waiting to be done, he is slightly bluish silvery gray. Anyone up to doing him?------------------ God gave me a brain to use but I miserably failed to use it to my advantage

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Alkalund Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 964 From: Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil Registered: Apr 2001 |
posted 27 January 2002 11:49
ALL the other dragons were done already?? I only have downloaded the Fire Dragon  ------------------ Alkalund

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Apocalypse Demon Moderator
   
Posts: 4023 From: Mississauga, Ontario Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 27 January 2002 11:53
No the FireDragon is the only one done. The large wyvern is not done yet and I saw another huge dragon that is not done. I want to learn how to convert multipart monsters.------------------ God gave me a brain to use but I miserably failed to use it to my advantage

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Novus Knight

Posts: 71 From: Minneapolis, MN Registered: Jan 2002 |
posted 27 January 2002 12:10
I use the JASC animation software, part of PSP I think.Anyway I take all the pieces for each sequence and each direction (9 for the dragons), and build each sequence. - Save the parts as GIFs
- Open all the parts
- Make a new empty GIF with a width and height of 500x700 (for dragons) to be save. Basically enough to hold all the parts together and prevent clipping.
- Take the top left piece and copy all the frame (ctrl-a)
- Paste these into your new animation (ctrl-shift-L)
- Delete the first blank frame
- Select all of these frame (I'll explain later)
- Goto the second piece and select and copy all of these (ctrl-A) & (ctrl-insert)
- Go back to the new animation
- Paste this second piece in (ctrl-E). Only the first frame will show the new piece at first.
- Move this piece, match it up, with the first on. You might have to zoom the new animation to help match up edges. If only the first frame gets the animation pasted into it. Undo and select all the frame so that it'll paste into ALL of them.
- Repeat these process for the next 7 pieces. You might not want to do them in order since some of them are hard to line up. So you might have to jump down to the fourth piece and build down then across.
I hope that helps.  ------------------ Ratsbane
[This message has been edited by Novus (edited 27 January 2002).] [This message has been edited by Novus (edited 27 January 2002).]

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Novus Knight

Posts: 71 From: Minneapolis, MN Registered: Jan 2002 |
posted 27 January 2002 13:06
Here's an example... Note: This is shrunk to 176x250 w/ no shadow. Whenever you resize an animation you should make the transparent background black 00.00.00 before you resize because the software will try and guess what color the transparent parts should become. If you remove all the transparent parts to black you can take out the guess work. This will sometimes make the edges dark but it's better than bright white edges. ------------------ Ratsbane [This message has been edited by Novus (edited 27 January 2002).]

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Apocalypse Demon Moderator
   
Posts: 4023 From: Mississauga, Ontario Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 27 January 2002 13:16
WOW!!! That's nice. Are you going to completely finish him yourself? If so, then go for it.  ------------------ God gave me a brain to use but I miserably failed to use it to my advantage

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Apocalypse Demon Moderator
   
Posts: 4023 From: Mississauga, Ontario Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 27 January 2002 13:20
Also, I noticed that the first frame of that animation from yours (when viewed with Cv5) also has a black background. Not sure why but it's now fixed. YOu know, it's better to instead of putting all files in a zip, you can just post them up like you just did and have people do save picture as.------------------ God gave me a brain to use but I miserably failed to use it to my advantage

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Novus Knight

Posts: 71 From: Minneapolis, MN Registered: Jan 2002 |
posted 27 January 2002 13:52
What size should I make the Chrome dragon? It's averaging 430x534 and I think the max animation size for D2 is 250x250?------------------ Ratsbane

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Alkalund Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 964 From: Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil Registered: Apr 2001 |
posted 27 January 2002 13:56
Well, I don't know, but if 250x250 really is the max, then make it the max size Actually, it would be like 211x250, in order to preserve proportions. Dragons must be HUGE  Good work on the dragon Novus, it's looking great!------------------ Alkalund

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Apocalypse Demon Moderator
   
Posts: 4023 From: Mississauga, Ontario Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 27 January 2002 14:00
ALKALUND!!!Why did you do the Ravager(pitFiend)? I already DID THE PITFIEND, why do you think I made this thread, to not get the monsters confused. I already did him but now you got him uploaded which means I did him for no REASON!!!  ------------------ God gave me a brain to use but I miserably failed to use it to my advantage

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Alkalund Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 964 From: Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil Registered: Apr 2001 |
posted 27 January 2002 14:11
::::realizes the mistake::::OOPS, I am so SO sorry Apocalypse Demon, I should have looked closely your post when you told me the bam files for your pit fiend... I really had no idea it was the ravager (that's his name by the way) I will take the files off of my site if you want, after all, you did them first... Sorry again... I'm very embarassed here  ------------------ Alkalund

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Apocalypse Demon Moderator
   
Posts: 4023 From: Mississauga, Ontario Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 27 January 2002 14:13
Well..........he was my first conversion and I was so proud of my conversion. The problem is that I have trouble sending huge files to other people for upload because I can't get a good site running up so I'm at a disadvantage when it comes to getting files uploaded...------------------ God gave me a brain to use but I miserably failed to use it to my advantage

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Alkalund Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 964 From: Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil Registered: Apr 2001 |
posted 27 January 2002 14:19
So, should i take my ravager down??As of getting files uploaded, I still have about 30MB to use (the files cannot be larger than 4MB each though). I can upload some of your animations if you want, you can send them to my home e-mail. ------------------ Alkalund

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Apocalypse Demon Moderator
   
Posts: 4023 From: Mississauga, Ontario Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 27 January 2002 14:21
Well, how much space can your e-mail hold. Does it have a limit, if not I'll send everything at once(in multiple e-mails).------------------ God gave me a brain to use but I miserably failed to use it to my advantage

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