----------------------------------- recneps Sat Dec 27, 2003 8:54 pm Animated GIF's ----------------------------------- it would be really cool, if someone could make a program that can take several GIF's and make an animated one. hint hint, someone out there (if its possible in turing!) ----------------------------------- Tony Sat Dec 27, 2003 10:30 pm ----------------------------------- it will be possible with turing in 4~5 years, when the copyright on .gif encoding expires :lol: HoltSoft is just too cheap to buy a licence to use .gif files:? ----------------------------------- Mazer Sun Dec 28, 2003 7:26 am ----------------------------------- that's pretty freaking retarded to have a copyright on a file format. :roll: ----------------------------------- recneps Sun Dec 28, 2003 11:37 am ----------------------------------- i agree lol ----------------------------------- roer Sun Dec 28, 2003 6:59 pm ----------------------------------- that's pretty freaking retarded to have a copyright on a file format. :roll: Actually it's a smart idea for the creators, they are able to collect royalties from people buying the license. It's like saying "Let's make Windows Open Source!!!", we all know it won't happen ----------------------------------- Mazer Mon Dec 29, 2003 7:29 am ----------------------------------- still... that's crap man. now if you'll excuse me i need to go create and standardize the *.mai (Mazer's Animated Image) file format and collect billions off of all those poor suckers in the world that'll actually pay for it! :wink: ----------------------------------- Dan Tue Dec 30, 2003 1:11 am ----------------------------------- not a tutorial, moved.... ----------------------------------- recneps Tue Dec 30, 2003 5:03 pm ----------------------------------- but if someone were to make one, and explain how it would be :) ----------------------------------- McKenzie Tue Dec 30, 2003 5:34 pm ----------------------------------- Step 1. ~~~~~ Take an animated GIF and break it into 1 bmp of jpeg per frame. If you don't have a program to do this already download IrfanView from download.com (it is free, not just free to try) Step 2. ~~~~~ Load all of the frames into an array of integers (when you want to draw them later they are already in RAM, and thus draw much quicker) Step 3. ~~~~~ Draw frames in order and cycle it. The example here is very simple and would need changes to incorperate it into a real program. ----------------------------------- roer Wed Dec 31, 2003 12:11 am ----------------------------------- still... that's crap man. now if you'll excuse me i need to go create and standardize the *.mai (Mazer's Animated Image) file format and collect billions off of all those poor suckers in the world that'll actually pay for it! :wink: Go ahead :P That'd be awesome :wink: Thats the way the world works unfortunatly...we'd probably have cured cancer by now if all the labs would share their information :evil: Everyone for themselves these days *sigh* :cry: ----------------------------------- Ashkan Wed Dec 31, 2003 3:14 am heya ----------------------------------- hey check out the Turtorial cuz i made a tutorial for it ... and download the program. http://www.compsci.ca/v2/viewtopic.php?t=2629