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KingCold
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posted 06 January 2002 16:57     Click Here to See the Profile for KingCold   Click Here to Email KingCold        Reply w/Quote   
if i view the said gifs in IE they look fine with no black box at all, but whenever i open them in cv5 there appears to be a black box around the first frame but no other frame, and it converts this black box into dcc format aswell, anyone ever had this happen before? or is this just another imageready *beep* up

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Apocalypse Demon
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posted 06 January 2002 16:59     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
That's the same problem I had, that's because the frame size of each frame is not the same. You need to change the frame size(not the animation size) to be all the same size. So, check the size of the frame that looks okay and then make all frames have the same size.

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KingCold
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posted 06 January 2002 18:51     Click Here to See the Profile for KingCold   Click Here to Email KingCold        Reply w/Quote   
ok, ive got a shareware gif editor now the problem is... that all of the frames are already the same size... someone have enuf time to look at this gif tonight? i want to try and finish the wyvern tonight. i have a plugin all set and ready to go as soon as i fix these 3 animations

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posted 06 January 2002 18:52     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
See, that is exactly what happened to me. So I gave them to Nefarius and he fixed them...ask him what exactly he did because he got mine pretty much fixed.

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KingCold
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posted 06 January 2002 19:03     Click Here to See the Profile for KingCold   Click Here to Email KingCold        Reply w/Quote   
AHA i reconstructed it useing the gif editor and now all's well apocalypse demon do you have the link to the thread on converting bg1 sound files? (they arnt normal wav files winamp cant even play them)

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Apocalypse Demon
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posted 06 January 2002 19:10     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
http://dynamic2.gamespy.com/~phrozenkeep/ubb/Forum38/HTML/000110.html

This applies to all sound files for all games. You just need to change the sound type. Read the thread. Oh, and can you send me the finished animations at e_tchernev@hotmail.com

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KingCold
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posted 06 January 2002 19:22     Click Here to See the Profile for KingCold   Click Here to Email KingCold        Reply w/Quote   
ok, the animation is all done and zipped, do you want plugin or raw dcc form? oh and it looks like bg1's wav files use some sort of compression because even microshaft sound recorder wont open them, oh well ill look more into that later

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posted 06 January 2002 19:25     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
I want the raw .dccs and the sound files please. I'll see what I can do with the sound files if anything. Btw, who are you replacing as a plugin(who is replacing the wyverns)? ANyways, just send the .dccs and .wavs. Thanks alot

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KingCold
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posted 06 January 2002 19:30     Click Here to See the Profile for KingCold   Click Here to Email KingCold        Reply w/Quote   
foul crows, the wyverns third attack looks almost exactly like the foul crows tail attack and they look great poping out of those nests

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posted 06 January 2002 19:34     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
Ok, send them to e_tchernev@hotmail.com

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KingCold
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posted 06 January 2002 19:50     Click Here to See the Profile for KingCold   Click Here to Email KingCold        Reply w/Quote   
my mail client is VERY slowley sending u the files... uggg it would have been quicker to upload it to my isp...

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posted 07 January 2002 20:20     Click Here to See the Profile for badasswerewolf   Click Here to Email badasswerewolf        Reply w/Quote   Visit badasswerewolf's Homepage!
Hey, KingCold! I'd like to find out how you fixed that problem with the blackbox/blackbackground in the first frame when viewing it in CV5, cause I get the same thing sometimes too.

Did you make the background opaque?

That seems to work for me...
And Nefarius just confirmed that the d2 palette treats the background color AAAAAA as transparent anyway. No need to specify it twice.

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KingCold
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posted 08 January 2002 02:29     Click Here to See the Profile for KingCold   Click Here to Email KingCold        Reply w/Quote   
i just tell animation studio t start with an opaque background of #AAAAAAA

works fine for me and it worked fine for the three conversions i did yesterday

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