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Apocalypse Demon
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posted 12 January 2002 19:09     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
Okay, here are some screenshots of the Iron Golems:

www.apocalypsedemon.freeservers.com/index.html

You will also find some other monster pictures as well as the picture of the red dragon at.
www.apocalypsedemon.freeservers.com/photo.html

You will notice that for the IronGolem animations, the shadows are white for some reason. Badasswerewolf, I thought you edited those shadows when I gave you the files to finish off? Anyways, what do you guys think?

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posted 12 January 2002 23:34     Click Here to See the Profile for NefariusDX   Click Here to Email NefariusDX        Reply w/Quote   Visit NefariusDX's Homepage!
cool dude, just get rid of that shadow

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posted 13 January 2002 00:59     Click Here to See the Profile for Axalon   Click Here to Email Axalon        Reply w/Quote   
Yeah, they look pretty awesome ... I think the dragon should be in the River of Flame, maybe guarding the entrance to the Chaos Santuary

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posted 13 January 2002 01:39     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
Yeah, that was just a test. He's not really going to be in the palace.

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posted 13 January 2002 10:20     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
Ok, what is the best way to get rid of these shadows? Should I use the eraser and erase it for EVERY frame, that will take alot of time. Is there a more efficient method?

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badasswerewolf
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posted 13 January 2002 12:01     Click Here to See the Profile for badasswerewolf   Click Here to Email badasswerewolf        Reply w/Quote   Visit badasswerewolf's Homepage!
Yes, there is a better way. Let me know if you just want a color change for the shadow or if you want to get rid of it completely. It is easy to do in one step as long as the background color is "opaque".

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posted 13 January 2002 12:31     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
Ok, can you completely get rid of the shadow then? Then we can use an auto shadow by putting a 1 in the shadow column of monstats.txt.

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posted 13 January 2002 17:27     Click Here to See the Profile for badasswerewolf   Click Here to Email badasswerewolf        Reply w/Quote   Visit badasswerewolf's Homepage!
Okay, the iron golem with No Shadow is done.

See here for details.

www.flightsofsplendor.com/D2X_modstuff/mmm.htm

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Apocalypse Demon
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posted 13 January 2002 18:56     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
Ok, can you tell me how you got rid of the shadow so quickly? So I don't have to ask you to do it every single time.

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KingCold
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posted 13 January 2002 19:56     Click Here to See the Profile for KingCold   Click Here to Email KingCold        Reply w/Quote   
he used a replace color #xxxxxxx with color #yyyyyyy type of command x and y being any number

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badasswerewolf
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posted 13 January 2002 20:46     Click Here to See the Profile for badasswerewolf   Click Here to Email badasswerewolf        Reply w/Quote   Visit badasswerewolf's Homepage!
KingCold is right. Here's the steps using Gamani GIFMovieGear:

1. open GIF animation file.
2. select Properties from Animation pull-down.
3. Click on Edit Global Palette.
4. The cursor will turn into an eye-dropper when it is positioned over any color. Using the eye-dropper check the color index of the shadow in the image on the right. The color index is a number between 0 and 255 and it has a specific RGB value. In the case of the iron golem, the shadows somehow got converted to 132,132,132 (from the original 128,128,128) when I worked on them. But I digress. The index number will be different for each animation, since each animation has a different palette (it doesn't NEED to be this way, you could have all the same palette). For example, the walk animation has color index #65 assigned to the shadow.
5. With the eye-dropper cursor move over to the left side of the window and pick index #65 from the color palette table (a bunch of little boxes).
6. When it is selected you can edit the RGB value (decimal) to whatever you want in the radio boxes below it. So for a background of #AAAAAA hex this is RGB 170,170,170.
7. Click Okay. Viola! Shadow is now invisible! This is because the background color is also RGB 170,170,170 and it is opaque. You can not do this trick if the background is made transparent, however. This is because only one color index can be transparent within a GIF image and there is no way to selectively delete a single index entry. In other words, if you need a transparent background but want to get rid of the shadow, you have to paint it out in every frame. YUK!!! Fortunately, as pointed out by Nefarius, the D2X palette handler provides the transparency operation and we can leave the background opaque - so you're in business with this handy shortcut!
8. IMPORTANT CHECK: switch to the Global Frame tab of the Properties window and make sure that the "transparent" checkbox is "un-checked" and also select "Background Color - before drawing next image".
9. Click okay. Save animation with new name.
10. Easy as pie.

I'm sure the same can be done in Jasc Animation Shop somehow. But give MovieGear a try. It is a favorite of web developers and...it has a 30-day free trial period.

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posted 13 January 2002 20:50     Click Here to See the Profile for badasswerewolf   Click Here to Email badasswerewolf        Reply w/Quote   Visit badasswerewolf's Homepage!
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