Resize cursor strips????
quick solutions?
Friday, February 8, 2008 by Chuckeye | Discussion: Beginners
Mmmmm CFX is nice, love the slick UI and all the gooey features 
.Strange though it doesn't work on my new tabletpc 
On the issue of cursors, I want to change the size of my original files of a cursor set I made, its just too big and I want to cut it down for economy's sake.I used the animutil to make those png strips,but when I scale them the animation 'scrolls'. Any skinners out there with the knowledge? I don't want to go into detail but it would be a hassle to do it to the files I prepared before the strips, lots of layers,fx etc.I know it's just too easy to do it in CFX but that's not the issue it's more about file size and resources. Thanx anyone
One more thing, can I and /or how do make an 'if' state? For example: goto another animation if Mouse not pressed for ten seconds
Oh yeah check out my slightly pointless robot animation,I shot it back in the stone age 1993 WWW Link -don't be too harsh
.Strange though it doesn't work on my new tabletpc 
On the issue of cursors, I want to change the size of my original files of a cursor set I made, its just too big and I want to cut it down for economy's sake.I used the animutil to make those png strips,but when I scale them the animation 'scrolls'. Any skinners out there with the knowledge? I don't want to go into detail but it would be a hassle to do it to the files I prepared before the strips, lots of layers,fx etc.I know it's just too easy to do it in CFX but that's not the issue it's more about file size and resources. Thanx anyone
One more thing, can I and /or how do make an 'if' state? For example: goto another animation if Mouse not pressed for ten seconds
Oh yeah check out my slightly pointless robot animation,I shot it back in the stone age 1993 WWW Link -don't be too harsh
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Reply #1 Sunday, November 23, 2008 6:01 PM
Hi Chuckeye, I didn't see your post when you made it because I was in a bad place at the time.
You probably know the answer to this by now so this can be for anyone.
Open .png strip with your software. I use Paint.net for this but most programs are about the same.
Menu>Image>Resize
Make sure Maintain aspect ratio is checked.
Change Height to where you want it.
Now look at the Width, Width / Framecount=NewFrameWidth.
If NewFrameWidth is not an even number then round it down or up.
Muliply NewFrameWidth by Framecount and enter that number into Width.
Press OK.
Yes you can do that!
Let's say your png strip is 5 frames, the first being the normal state and the last 4 being the animation.
Use a sript like this:
1,999999
2-4,50
The cursor will stay on frame 1 for 10 seconds then goto animation then back to frame 1.