[Grey Wolf]

I need an ANI artist to make intel and loadout ANIs for these models:

Athena S (stealth variant)
(for this one I could also use a loadout screen)
 

Cyclops S (stealth variant)
 

Thor (fighter beam cannon)
 

For doing this you'll get full credit for them in SHaS.

[aldo_14]

I can't help you, unfortunately, but that athenea looks nice  

[Grey Wolf]

I just realized this doesn't belong here. It should be in the FS Modding Forum.

[wEvil]

gimme a shout in week (email)


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[Joey_21]

Well, [p1mp] I have ship loadout ANI experience[/p1mp]. Want to see some of my work? Click here. I'm not sure I could do intel ANIs. You might need to contact somebody else about that.  

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[CptWhite]

I can convert your regular AVI movies to ANI

ie someone renders a movie and i'll convert it.  I only have experience with the big 440x200 movies.  My conversions are excellent quality so if you want a movie converted let me know it takes about 5-10 minute.

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[Snipes]

hehe, how'sabout a divx rip too? I'd love to see Traffic in FS2  

lmao

[Black Ace]

 

Originally posted by Snipes:
hehe, how'sabout a divx rip too? I'd love to see Traffic in FS2

Now Now snipes.... you know we don't talk of such things here...  



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It was a joke...  


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[Grey Wolf]

I think I'll have Joey21 do the loadout ANIs. Can you do the ones for the Amon-Ra and Morrigan when their done being modeled, too? WEvil, can you do the tech room ANIs for the Thor and the Cyclops S? I just remembered how to do the loadout pcx, so I don't need that. And what about the selection ANIs?

[CptWhite]

get yourself a copy of fs2view (small pof exe viewer)

open the ship - set to automatically rotate  and get hypercam dx to screen capture the rotation - save as an avi and then its just the converting  

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[Joey_21]

 

Originally posted by Grey Wolf 2009:
I think I'll have Joey21 do the loadout ANIs. Can you do the ones for the Amon-Ra and Morrigan when their done being modeled, too?

Sure. Why not.  

  [email protected]   - email me about them

Edit: CpWhite:
1. Where can I get hypercam dx?
2. How do I convert the images to ANI after capturing the images?

I'm not sure this will help my method but it's worth a try.

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[This message has been edited by Joey_21 (edited 06-21-2001).]

[CptWhite]

Ok i you need some program to extract all the avi frames as .bmp images in numerical order (i use paint shop pro 7's Animation Shop) the bmp images need to be in order like

ani0000.bmp
ani0001.bmp

etc though to the last frame

animation shop doesnt seem to be able to produce the file name exactly as you want it

so i then go to ACDSee and do a batch file name conversion.  Ok so now the files are in order and the right format and named correctly

i now use "bright" -an industrial dos based colour reducer

get it here

bright

open a dos prompt and go to the folder where you saved your bmp's (also make a copy of the bright.exe in that folder)

ok so for example

C:\windows\desktop\ani_test >

C:\windows\desktop\ani_test >bright

C:\windows\desktop\ani_test >bright *.bmp -common


*.bmp - will convert all bmp files in that folder to 256 pcx files for conversion

-common - makes all the files use a common palette -  needed for ani's and it actively optimises this palette - improving visual colour depth, defination, and quality

check the readme for other various commands

now you have all the pcx files just open AniBuilder and compile the ani  

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[This message has been edited by CptWhite (edited 06-22-2001).]

[aldo_14]

1. Where can I get hypercam dx?
[/b]

http://www.hyperionics.com/downloads/HC1Setup.exe  - direct link

or http://www.hyperionics.com/index.html

It's shareware/testware and I've just downloaded it, so I can't say how functional it is.



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[Joey_21]

   

Originally posted by CptWhite:
Ok i you need some program to extract all the avi frames as .bmp images in numerical order (i use paint shop pro 7's Animation Shop) the bmp images need to be in order like

ani0000.bmp
ani0001.bmp

etc though to the last frame

animation shop doesnt seem to be able to produce the file name exactly as you want it

so i then go to ACDSee and do a batch file name conversion.  Ok so now the files are in order and the right format and named correctly

i now use "bright" -an industrial dos based colour reducer

get it here

bright

open a dos prompt and go to the folder where you saved your bmp's (also make a copy of the bright.exe in that folder)

ok so for example

C:\windows\desktop\ani_test >

C:\windows\desktop\ani_test >bright

C:\windows\desktop\ani_test >bright *.bmp -common


*.bmp - will convert all bmp files in that folder to 256 pcx files for conversion

-common - makes all the files use a common palette -  needed for ani's and it actively optimises this palette - improving visual colour depth, defination, and quality

check the readme for other various commands

now you have all the pcx files just open AniBuilder and compile the ani      

LOL.     Please tell me that you're kidding!!!!! HAHAHAHAHHAHA.... I don't go through all that trouble just to name my files. I'll just simply have animation shop extract the names as gif files, have them correctly named with a different gif animator, and then batch convert them with PSP itself. Simple as that.

Edit: BTW: That hypersnap cam is terrible! I don't see how anybody could record a good quality ship loadout animation file with that! I'll stick to my method until something better comes out.  

Also, even if that process worked, it still wouldn't make anything like these, now would it?

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[This message has been edited by Joey_21 (edited 06-22-2001).]

[CptWhite]

You think my method produces poor results do you >

Suck on this bad boy!

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[Joey_21]

 

Originally posted by CptWhite:
You think my method produces poor results do you >

Suck on this bad boy!

I must say that I'm impressed with the animation itself. What impresses me the least is the filesize of that sucker! Put some compression into those images! I don't think a 56ker would want to go through downloading that, more, AND the campaign! DSL rules when downloading large files but most of the people have 56k.

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[Snipes]

 

Originally posted by CptWhite:
You think my method produces poor results do you >

Suck on this bad boy!

Well, I sucked...and when I was done, sucked some more... and I must say, that is a l33+ ani... I want the B5 mod more than ever now  

BTW; I know how    that sounded, but I don't give a rats *** ...

[Black Ace]

Heheh.... took me a grand total of 18 sec to download it...  

Suckers...

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[CptWhite]

ANI cant be compressed ! or can they ?

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