Need software to help sprite editing

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2004-04-25 08:44pm

~~ I was prepared to rant for 5 paragraphs about my HL editing disaster, but I'll make it snappy:

I need a program that will export the frames of an animated gif with all of the exported frames having the same color depth and palette, and as a bitmap. Irfanview can't do it, Animation Shop won't, nor will Photoshop or Imageready. Does such a program exist?

will it also go to town

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2004-04-26 07:50pm

Is this for Half-Life? If so, try http://www.planethalflife.com/mach3/spr ... rview.html

I've made custom crosshairs for HL with that before...

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2004-04-26 07:59pm

Exonerate wrote:Is this for Half-Life? If so, try http://www.planethalflife.com/mach3/spr ... rview.html

I've made custom crosshairs for HL with that before...

Nono~ I use that for extracting frames out. The problem is, if I edit a frame by introducing a color that was not in the original sprite palette, then there is no way to replace that animated sprite. It will give me an error about the palette.

I've tried to find a way around it by extracting the frames, editing the ones I want, throwing all of them into a gif (giving all the frames the same palette in the process) then extracting the gif frames as bmps. The last step does not work because:

1) Irfanview exports the gif in a fucked up manner, where the frames should be 128x128 but some end up 28x67 or some shit

2) Extracting each frame individually in Image Ready and Animation Shop will give the frames their own palettes. Even if I load an appropriate color table file it won't work, because the colors get extremely fucked up.

Executor32 · Post by **Executor32** » 2004-04-26 11:21pm

Here's something I made a while back using IrfanView, Paint, and Animation Shop:

It was originally a GIF of the Alderaan destruction scene, I extracted the frames, pasted the enlarged smiley frames while overlapping the "shield effect" over the face, then put it back together with Animation Shop. I tried extracting the frames again to simulate approximately what you were doing, and I had no problems with image size or anything. What version of IrfanView are you using?

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2004-04-26 11:39pm

Executor32 wrote:Here's something I made a while back using IrfanView, Paint, and Animation Shop:

It was originally a GIF of the Alderaan destruction scene, I extracted the frames, pasted the enlarged smiley frames while overlapping the "shield effect" over the face, then put it back together with Animation Shop. I tried extracting the frames again to simulate approximately what you were doing, and I had no problems with image size or anything. What version of IrfanView are you using?

I'm using the latest version - 3.90

It likes to spit out frames as little chunks of what it originally was.

Btw, when you extracted all the frames with i_view, did all the frames have the same palette? That's the key issue I'm having.

Executor32 · Post by **Executor32** » 2004-04-27 02:03pm

Yes, they all have the same palette.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2004-04-27 04:35pm

I think you can do it with photoshop, all you need is to have your palette in advance, then make an action that will automatically copy the active frame to a new document, lower the color depth with your palette file, and export it (with the name of the frame, even).