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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: TrashMan on September 02, 2008, 03:54:56 am

Title: Head ani?
Post by: TrashMan on September 02, 2008, 03:54:56 am

I gots a question - I got a decent little animated head talking in .sfd format

I want to turn into a head ani. Can anyone walk me trough the steps. It's been ages since I tried something like this, and IIRC, I got nowhere even back then.

Title: Re: Head ani?
Post by: Joey_X on September 02, 2008, 05:24:51 am

If my memory serves me correctly, you need to find a way to convert each frame to .pcx format and then use anibuilder (should be on google) to get the frames into .ani format.

Title: Re: Head ani?
Post by: TrashMan on September 02, 2008, 06:12:27 am

I know that part, but I was thinking about they way to get it to look like other ani's - semi transparent and stuff... This one is fully colored, so I was wondering if anyone knows a easy way to do it.

Title: Re: Head ani?
Post by: Water on September 02, 2008, 07:04:41 am

16 grey and darken every second line for a scanline effect.

Title: Re: Head ani?
Post by: TrashMan on September 02, 2008, 07:46:31 am

ERm....16 bit color...grayscale...darken every second line...is that right?

Title: Re: Head ani?
Post by: Water on September 02, 2008, 03:08:50 pm

Quote from: TrashMan on September 02, 2008, 07:46:31 am

ERm....16 bit color...grayscale...darken every second line...is that right?

No. Sixteen colours total. The rest of the 256 colours are all green.

Title: Re: Head ani?
Post by: TrashMan on September 02, 2008, 03:10:24 pm

Pure green or different variations of green?

Also, does anyone know a good way to extract frames from a .sfd file?

Title: Re: Head ani?
Post by: TrashMan on September 04, 2008, 06:07:53 am

Yo...anyone can help me with this?

Title: Re: Head ani?
Post by: Galemp on September 05, 2008, 01:37:22 pm

I have no idea what SFD is... so no. But the green they mean is pure green. Just look at the palette for the existing ANIs. You have to match that precisely.

Title: Re: Head ani?
Post by: Colonol Dekker on September 05, 2008, 01:39:47 pm

0 255 0 to be exact.