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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: untouchable on February 14, 2002, 11:05:59 pm

Title: Command Briefing Woes
Post by: untouchable on February 14, 2002, 11:05:59 pm

Ok, how does one accomplish Command Breifings using LW? I tried to render all the frames to PCX but they were all the wrong color resolution......:mad: (and last time I checked it would take 5 years to edit the color resoultion of 400 frames so.........:confused:

can someone help?

Title: Command Briefing Woes
Post by: LtNarol on February 14, 2002, 11:10:03 pm

ummm, i dunt know.  Try using flash or Jasc's animator.

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Title: Command Briefing Woes
Post by: Ace on February 14, 2002, 11:12:57 pm

What you need is a program that will take the frames and give them a common color pallete... Bright can do that last time I checked.

Title: Command Briefing Woes
Post by: Darkage on February 15, 2002, 08:54:24 am

I use Irfanview to convert the images to index color and into pcx format 500 images done in 2/3 secs

and it can almost view any format there is.

www.irfanview.com

Title: Command Briefing Woes
Post by: Thorn on February 16, 2002, 08:27:20 am

What resolution are these things supposed to be anyway?

Title: Command Briefing Woes
Post by: CODEDOG ND on February 16, 2002, 08:54:26 am

ummmm PSP7 can normaly fix them if you save them frame by frame b4 converting.

Title: Command Briefing Woes
Post by: CptWhite on February 16, 2002, 09:37:59 am

this is what a told uss alexander a while back....direct copy

Title: Command Briefing Woes
Post by: CptWhite on February 16, 2002, 09:40:57 am

this is what a told uss alexander a while back....direct copy

i use animation shop

to extract the avi, then extract the frames to bmp, then convert bmp to pcx with bright

the quality loss is minimal

k wel i used bright to, and then anibuilder ****s the palletes up

use this command with bright

- common

and

 - ycc

so for example

?? you have to typ it in after : bright tt0000.bmp

c:\windows\desktop>bright test*.bmp - common - ycc

this will convert all test(number order).bmp files in that directory with the same palette and the ycc helps the collour reduction

read the readme for bright .....

there are a load of useful commands, but common is the one you need most

the colours will now be correct in your animation, as they will all use the same pallette...like anibuilder requires

Title: Command Briefing Woes
Post by: Thorn on February 16, 2002, 10:09:37 am

alright..
Have a link for bright?

Title: Command Briefing Woes
Post by: CptWhite on February 17, 2002, 04:35:38 am

http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/babylon/Screens_Misc/progrmas/