if anyone can tell me the secret to doing this i would really appreciate it. thanks

for now you'll need an app that can save out the gir's frames one by one. I've been using ImageReady and Photoshop, but i'm sure there are some freebies out there that will do this.

Unless you can talk Mike S into getting JAnimEdit to auto import the gifanim frames as JAnimEdit frames.... which would ROCK....

ya ive been doing it that way too.. i know there is a program somewhere i just ahvent looked that will export frame by frame on a gif animations ie. 001.gif, 002.gif, 003.gif, ect. ill find it.. i know its on tucows somewhere or shareware.com that will speed the process up a bunch

Yeah, i should have looked for it last night... saving out frame by frame in Photoshop is a pain in the arse. I can't believe imageready has an "import folder as frames" but not an export.

well i guess i have the seperating thing down pat but how to import them into janimedit? i apologize i am really new at doing this and not to mention a little confused.

just use the "open frame image" command in the Animation Editor. I think it's in the File menu.

man am i dumb. thanks. i didn't even try that!!! i feel better now though. thanks again

also i might want to add that there are a bunch of newbies out there that would like to do more of this stuff cause its fun. if there was a section devoted to this it would be the most rockenest(not a word). we could actually share how cool we really are.

It's on my list ... don't worry ... Maybe this will show up in 31.

Mike

Man, between you and Mark, it's like having a new toy every day. Thanks a ton for all your work. If you're into Star Wars games lemme know. =]

> If you're into Star Wars games lemme know. =]

???

Loren works for LucasArts, you see...

yeah, forgot to mention that. Wow, i've been pimpin' that angle hard today haven't I. Sucks that all i can offer in the hookups dept. is Star Wars garb. Hah.

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That's too cool ... What do you do at LucasArts? Did I mention that Sam n Max, Day of the Tentacle, Maniac Mansion, Indiana Jones, and all there delicious friends are the best games ever made? <shameless-begging>I'm totally up for free LucasArts stuff Pick your feature...</shameless-begging>
</off-topic>

Aren't there some folks who work on Everquest floating around the Empeg BBS too?

Mike

I'm an animator... working on a new original title to be announced at E3.

Actually, i just today came across free copies of Grim Fandango and Full Throttle . PM me your address and they're yours if you want 'em. Do you have any consoles?

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So 31 ended up being bug fixes, but maybe it will end up in _32_ (assuming I don't have more bugs, which of course I don't!!)

wooohooo thanks mike your a pal.. ill be keeping my eues open for that.. once i can import animated gifs.. im going to be doing some major creating.. becuase i can make them in imageready faster than in ur editor (no offence)

Just to keep this thread current, the latest jEmplode (32) can import GIF animations .. It has to be 128x32 and you have to get the palette set right. It will automatically look for non-unique frames and set them up as a sequence properly.

Mike

awesome you guys are gods. all of you.

Loren, know if there is a Rogue Sphere II like on GC for the pc? Or anything like it for the ps2? I didnt like the new jedji starfighter for ps2 much.

-Greg

p.s. know of any openings for jobs? hehe

not that i know of... but i don't keep track of our star wars games much. heheh.

I worked on the first Starfigther for PS2, and the new "Jedi" version is the same thing with some cool new effects and two player thingies. Not much of an improvement. The animation and cutscenes however, are lightyears better.

All of the job openings in the company are posted on the website, so i wouldn't have any inside tracks. I can do referals though....

I bought the Star Wars pod racer game the other day, and I was so ticked off that it was not compatible with Windows XP. :-( I wanted to play it so badly with my force feedback joystick. *sniff*

Calvin

I was so ticked off that it was not compatible with Windows XP

I think you got that backwards: the proper way to word that statement is: "I was so ticked of that Windows XP was not compatible with the game."

See, the game was written before XP came out... if the OS won't run the game, thats the fault of the OS for not being backwardly-compatible.

Is backwardly-compatible a word?

Everyone run, it's the grammar police!

Hide your children!

Well, Windows XP has a backwards compatibility mode that lets you select 95, 98, Millenium, NT, and 2000 emulation for a particular program. Nothing seems to work. The pod racer star wars game is the only game I haven't been able to get going. Even Maniac Mansion works, and that was well before Windows even existed. Pfft.

It just seems to me, that if it is truly a Direct X game, then it should not be bugged by OS. As it is, the piece of history was that Windows NT did not have the latest directX editions to run most games, and during that time period, game companies blocked games from running under NT kernels. This is what I'm suspecting.

Calvin

It wouldn't happen to be this problem, would it?

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q307091

I was logged in as the administrator. Beats me why episode 1 racer is in that list because it simply didn't work. :-/

Calvin

try calling LucasArts support. I can't remember if it's a free call or not... i sorta doubt it, but it's on the back of the box i'm sure.