Alpha blending blah blah blah Desktop X how can you have animation
Wednesday, March 17, 2004 by Latin4567 | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Pretty much the title tells it all...
If you can't use .gif's than how do you do animation
If you can't use .gif's than how do you do animation
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CerebroJD
Reply #2 Wednesday, March 17, 2004 12:23 PM
Reply #2 Wednesday, March 17, 2004 12:23 PM
Make a series of images in one png file. Then you can go into the object properties and tell it how many frames there are. It will divide the image by that many frames, and play them in order giving you an animation.
Latin4567
Reply #6 Thursday, March 18, 2004 9:41 AM
Ok I get the last part but how do you do ↑
Reply #6 Thursday, March 18, 2004 9:41 AM
| Make a series of images in one png file |
Ok I get the last part but how do you do ↑
Latin4567
Reply #7 Thursday, March 18, 2004 9:43 AM
Reply #7 Thursday, March 18, 2004 9:43 AM
How do you make a .png any way? (I know you can use image ready but it tells me that .png dosn't support animation.)
Sput
Reply #8 Thursday, March 18, 2004 9:51 AM
Reply #8 Thursday, March 18, 2004 9:51 AM
latin4567 - that's correct, PNG doesn't support animation, so put all the animations frames in one image side by side and then tell DesktopX that it's made up of multiple frames and it does the animation magic (see post #2)
joetheblow
Reply #9 Thursday, March 18, 2004 10:06 AM
Reply #9 Thursday, March 18, 2004 10:06 AM
I would suggest taking a look at some other themes and see if they have any animations in it. Then you can see how its done.
Sput
Reply #11 Thursday, March 18, 2004 6:28 PM
Reply #11 Thursday, March 18, 2004 6:28 PM
IPlural - just a quick question - Basic Zoomers, is there any point now we have IconX and icons easily created by pointing at an PNG? 
Imagine all that hard work people have done in the past which is all pointless now...
Sput thinks that IconX technology is the best thing since sliced bread for making cool looking desktops very easy.
Imagine all that hard work people have done in the past which is all pointless now...Sput thinks that IconX technology is the best thing since sliced bread for making cool looking desktops very easy.
kongit
Reply #12 Thursday, March 18, 2004 6:31 PM
Reply #12 Thursday, March 18, 2004 6:31 PM
zoomers don't have to just zoom in and out. look at some of the better ones of the past. they did more than just zoom 
Sput
Reply #13 Thursday, March 18, 2004 6:52 PM
Reply #13 Thursday, March 18, 2004 6:52 PM
Kongit - ahh, true enough, but that's why I refered to "Basic Zoomers"
Latin4567
Reply #14 Thursday, March 18, 2004 7:24 PM
Reply #14 Thursday, March 18, 2004 7:24 PM
I don't even understand what zoomers are!
I tried loading one but I couldn't figure out what it did.
But lets stick to the point
so you do 2 images next to eachother, how do you you specify where the boundry between them is, is it just in the middle?
I tried loading one but I couldn't figure out what it did.
But lets stick to the point
so you do 2 images next to eachother, how do you you specify where the boundry between them is, is it just in the middle?
kongit
Reply #15 Thursday, March 18, 2004 7:26 PM
Reply #15 Thursday, March 18, 2004 7:26 PM
in the dx properties you set the number or frames. split the image horizontally equally in the number of frames you want and put each image in the frames where they go. for example a 200x100 image with 2 frames is 2 100x100 images tiled next to each other. so yes the boundry is right in the middle for a image with 2 frames. with 3 frames the boundries are at 1/3, and 2/3 the width, for 4...should I continues?
Latin4567
Reply #17 Saturday, March 20, 2004 5:00 PM
Reply #17 Saturday, March 20, 2004 5:00 PM
By the way what do you guys think of my Green Nebula stuff
I will turn it into a theme and try to get it by moderation pretty soon...
I will turn it into a theme and try to get it by moderation pretty soon...
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Reply #1 Wednesday, March 17, 2004 11:15 AM
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