making gifs
February 18, 2006 at 4:00 am | In gamemaker, sprites | 1 CommentStudents haven’t been posting their finished gifs into wordpress. After you make your animation then save it as a gif in game maker. Then I found you have to load it in GIMP and save it there, otherwise it won’t loop. Finally, upload it to wordpress as a full size image, not a thumbnail. Then you can see your animated gifs in wordpress! Remember to do a hard one (different sized frames) as well as an easy one.
problem 2:
2) Make an animation from a strip sheet of stills.
a) one where all the slides are the same size (easier)
b) another where the slides are of varying sizes (harder)
Solution:
Hint:
Sprite editor > File > Create from Strip
Sprite editor > File > Add from Strip
Hint: For slides of varying sizes start with the largest size and add the smaller sizes later and rearrange order. It can be a fiddly, tedious process!
Suitable strip sheets are astro_sheet.gif, shadow_sheet.gif, kadotsu_sheet.gif
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I’ve always found making GIFs to be easier than most people think, but it’s easier to do in some programs than others. I haven’t ever used GIMP to make one, but maybe it would be easier than trying to make one with photoshop.
Comment by phennylady — May 17, 2008 #