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I am looking for a program to automatically make the file for animated sprites. I have been pasting sequences into photoshop and at 100 frames per animation it is a problem when changes must be made.

I also need to have the animated sprites have a alpha channel so that I can use them flying over other images which are also sprites.

Does anyone know of anything that can help.

Thanks

you mean you want to be able to load an animated sprite kind of like how you would load an animated object?? if so, you might be able to make such a command with a function, but i don't think there is one already...

Bishop

If you're using DarkBASIC classic I might be able to help you. Since DBC does not support animated sprites I was first using load animation to load a .gif and then move it around as I needed. But there was a black background that I wanted to get rid of, so I ended up opening the file in Windows Movie Maker, and after seeing that the gif ran at 10 frames per second I took a picture of the gif at 0hrs:0mins0:secs:030millisecs and 021millisecs, and so on and so forth taking a picture of each of the eight frames and saving them as a bitmap. From there I could use paste image for transparency and have a function that cycled through frames.

For an animation program I recommend Flash. It is very user friendly, like if you go a little over a border line it will erase the part that stuck out too far for you and make everything nice and smooth. It uses keyframes so you can just set the duration, how you want whatever it is you're moving to move, and telling it the ending point, just like a 3d modeller. It may be a bit expensive, but not too bad.

hope I could help,

Flash's price depends on what program you get for it. If you get flash MX, I think its pretty expensive. You can get demo versions of other programs though, and they may be enough.

Flash does not creat the final BMP. Iam using the pro version.
All I want to do is to creat the final bmp with multiple bmp frames inside.

This needs to be automated