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Dragon Warrior
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posted 23 February 2002 03:45     Click Here to See the Profile for Dragon Warrior   Click Here to Email Dragon Warrior        Reply w/Quote   
Does anybody know of a program that can compile animations quickly. One that can shift-select-open images would be great. Mostly because its incredibly redundant to click insert frame, find file, open file, start again. Especially when the frames for some of the animations number into the multiple hundreds. Thanks

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Alkalund
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posted 23 February 2002 08:41     Click Here to See the Profile for Alkalund   Click Here to Email Alkalund        Reply w/Quote   
For dealing with animations a great program is Gamani Gif Movie Gear. Version 3.0 is a 30-day trial, grab it here:

http://www.gamani.com/

This is the program most of us animation converters use

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Dragon Warrior
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posted 23 February 2002 13:20     Click Here to See the Profile for Dragon Warrior   Click Here to Email Dragon Warrior        Reply w/Quote   
Thanks Alkalund, that program is a godsend. But what do you use to convert the images to dc6,dcc,etc?

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Alkalund
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posted 23 February 2002 13:27     Click Here to See the Profile for Alkalund   Click Here to Email Alkalund        Reply w/Quote   
To convert things to dc6, use Clannad's DC6 Maker. The latest version is 3.0, Here is the release topic with the download link:

http://dynamic2.gamespy.com/~phrozenkeep/ubb/Forum24/HTML/000234.html

To convert stuff to dcc use Cv5, it can be downloaded here at the keep, but here is the official homepage:

http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~mickyk/cv.html

Grab the latest version (5.2), and also the latest version of cvDCC.dll to be able to save DCCs.

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Dragon Warrior
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posted 23 February 2002 14:10     Click Here to See the Profile for Dragon Warrior   Click Here to Email Dragon Warrior        Reply w/Quote   
Thanks again My life has just become a whole lot easier.

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Wyvern
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posted 23 February 2002 14:13     Click Here to See the Profile for Wyvern   Click Here to Email Wyvern        Reply w/Quote   
thx for that url for the animation program . Is it a one shot deal?

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Alkalund
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posted 23 February 2002 14:24     Click Here to See the Profile for Alkalund   Click Here to Email Alkalund        Reply w/Quote   
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Originally posted by Wyvern:
thx for that url for the animation program . Is it a one shot deal?

I don't understand what you mean by that. Well the program is a 30-day trial, so "theoretically" you can use it for 30 days only, if that's what you mean

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Wyvern
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posted 23 February 2002 14:39     Click Here to See the Profile for Wyvern   Click Here to Email Wyvern        Reply w/Quote   
i mean if your 30 days r up can ya download it again? after removing it from your hard drive of course

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Alkalund
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posted 23 February 2002 14:44     Click Here to See the Profile for Alkalund   Click Here to Email Alkalund        Reply w/Quote   
Well, they say you "cannot" reinstall it after the 30 day period has ended.

Check your mailbox man

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Wyvern
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posted 23 February 2002 14:49     Click Here to See the Profile for Wyvern   Click Here to Email Wyvern        Reply w/Quote   
Thx man

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Alkalund
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posted 23 February 2002 14:55     Click Here to See the Profile for Alkalund   Click Here to Email Alkalund        Reply w/Quote   
No problem

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Dragon Warrior
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posted 23 February 2002 15:29     Click Here to See the Profile for Dragon Warrior   Click Here to Email Dragon Warrior        Reply w/Quote   
So you can't use the program for more than 30 days period. That really sucks. Anyone know a loophole or something?

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Wyvern
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posted 23 February 2002 16:00     Click Here to See the Profile for Wyvern   Click Here to Email Wyvern        Reply w/Quote   
got it to work from that site ya sent me Alkalund. problem was cause we got different versions i think . Thx man didn't want to spam up your email so i posted here off to eat dinner now...

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Dragon Warrior
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posted 24 February 2002 11:02     Click Here to See the Profile for Dragon Warrior   Click Here to Email Dragon Warrior        Reply w/Quote   
Just checked my e-mail and what a nice surprise. BIG Thanks Alkalund, once again you have made my life easier.

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Dragon Warrior
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posted 24 February 2002 11:14     Click Here to See the Profile for Dragon Warrior   Click Here to Email Dragon Warrior        Reply w/Quote   
Got just one more question for users of gamani. When you open a series of images saved as gifs from cv5, is it a bad thing that the frames don't disappear in the preview screen when playing the animation? They just seem to pile up.

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Alkalund
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posted 24 February 2002 15:59     Click Here to See the Profile for Alkalund   Click Here to Email Alkalund        Reply w/Quote   
Ok, about this "piling up" thing: when you edit your animation with gamani, go to the animation properties Box; select the global frame tab; there you'll find in the animation section something like "BlaBlah before drawing next image"; just make sure your BlahBlah is "Background Color", and you should be fine. Sometimes the other options available (No removal method, restore previous, leave alone) cause some problems, like the one you described.

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Dragon Warrior
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posted 24 February 2002 17:44     Click Here to See the Profile for Dragon Warrior   Click Here to Email Dragon Warrior        Reply w/Quote   
Cool, thanks again man.

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