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How do you make ANI files?
:confused:  How do you make them? I got that ANI builder thing but all it dose is make them numberd, what esle do I need to do?
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Offline vadar_1

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It dosn't make them numbered, it requires numbered filenames. You need a file named something0000.pcx, or one of the accepted file extensions. The key is the 0000, then each frame after it needs to be incremented by one... like something0001.pcx.
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Offline Sesquipedalian

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First make your series of images in 8-bit colour (that's 256 palletted colours).  They should all use the same colour pallette (if they aren't, anibuilder will smash them into being the same, which may turn out very ugly), and be the same size.  

Number each frame sequentially as vadar_1 described, so that the first frame is called filename0000.pcx, the next is filename0001.pcx, then filename0002.pcx, and so on until all frames are accounted for.

Run the images through anibuilder, and voila!  You now have filename.ani.
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It took me all of two minutes to work out how anibuilder32 worked - not that I use it that much! :D
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