(GIF) how do you make your cutscenes?

[NED]

I'm testing some stuffs for a "fake title screen" system.
I explain : from regular title screen you can select any mode normally.
Then before select screen the is a gif scene that simulate a "custom" title screen
eg : "Arena mode" "World tour mode" "training mode"...)

generally it's a single picture.

I saved it as a gif file (not animated), so the display time make it nearly appears...

Now I have to find a way to make this an animated gif, so it can be displayed 3 or 4 seconds.

How do you make your animated gifs without f*cking up the 256 palette?
Thanks


BTW, I feel a little shameful for not knowing it as a spriter...
I alway animated using mugen or openbor or flash out of traditional animation.
I never really created an animated gif :-\

 

[aL BeasTie]

can you post the images you need animated?

 

[NED]

Sure:

As I said, it's a single picture. A rearranged title screen of SSF2T (to fit my project res.)
When the method is OK, I'll do custom titles for the different modes.

 

[aL BeasTie]

What program are you using to make it animated?

I saved one for you with 100ms delay

 

[NED]

I create it using Photoshop, but it fails to have the good timing.
It display short time picture.

I'm open to use another software, if you suggest something easier, better.

Thanks for the test gif.


EDIT-------------------------------------
Also another problem happens.
I tested with your gif by renaming it.
And it seems not to be displayed...

I declared it like that in the level.txt

#--------------------------------------------------
set New_Ring
custfade 200#100
typemp  1#2
lives   10#99#1
credits 20
noshare 1


scene data/sprites/faketitle.txt
z 375 615#300 490#165 385
file	data/levels/ringc.txt

And the file itself is like that:

music  data/music/faketitle.bor  1
animation  data/sprites/faketitle.gif  0 0

The very shorm time display screen was the loading screen, not the fake title gif.
It's not displayed at all...  :-\

 

[aL BeasTie]

I don't see any reason why it's not working...

did you try to put it in DATA/SCENES - I doubt it matters thou...  but I've never tried them outside that folder. 

you need animation program like 'Jasc Animation Shop' change the frame display time. or Image Ready will do if you have that.

I know there is this free tool, never tried it for animations thou.
http://darkfunction.com/editor/

 

[NED]

Thanks BeasTie, I'll try these softs then, when I have a correct animated title, I'll try to experiment again "code" tweaking.

 

[O Ilusionista]

Ned, look for JASC Animation Shop 3, its amazing for do this kind of things

 

[Thegr8test]

thanks for recommending jasc animation 3 saved me alot of future with cutscenes ;D

 

[NED]

Ned, look for JASC Animation Shop 3, its amazing for do this kind of things

Thanks, I'll try it!