Animated Images

LoudSilence · September 10, 2020

I'm not sure, but there is probably no solution. I think .agif doesn't support transparency

Reptillian · September 10, 2020

1 minute ago, LoudSilence said:

I'm not sure, but there is probably no solution. I think .agif doesn't support transparency

.gif does support transparency. Binary though. I think it would be great to dither transparency though that can be made as a plugin or filter.

LoudSilence · September 10, 2020

I don't know then, tried helping as much as i can but I don't have much expertise in this area..

AndrewDavid · September 10, 2020

@DoubleD

Are you saving the file as AGIF or GIF?

Saving as GIF supports transparency as long as all your layers are transparent.

Here's an example I made a few years ago

Edited October 17, 2020 by AndrewDavid
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Pixey · September 10, 2020

@DoubleD .agif does support transparency. Have you watched this tutorial? Just uncheck the background layer and Save As:

DoubleD · September 11, 2020

22 hours ago, AndrewDavid said:

@DoubleD

Are you saving the file as AGIF or GIF?

Saving as GIF supports transparency as long as all your layers are transparent.

Here's an example I made a few years ago

All my frames have transparent backgrounds. I save using AGIF - GIF Animation and Images (*.gif, agif) with a .gif extension

AndrewDavid · September 11, 2020

@DoubleD

I tried creating a GIF with your transition codes to no avail. Can you reduce your gif to 4 or 5 layers and show us what you are seeing?

DoubleD · September 11, 2020

21 hours ago, Pixey said:

@DoubleD .agif does support transparency. Have you watched this tutorial? Just uncheck the background layer and Save As:

@Pixey I am so sorry and oh boy I feel stupid now! ! ! It is transparent The place I was inserting the image to had a white background - I ran a little test with the following and realized what a dummy !

Thank you

<html>
<head>
<style> 
body {
      background-color: #0000ff;
     }
</style>
</head>
<body>

<BR><BR>
 <img src="file:///C:\Users\MyName\Pictures\t1\Testing.gif" alt=" - Image Not Found -" width="500" height="500"> 
</body>
</html>

DoubleD · September 11, 2020

20 minutes ago, AndrewDavid said:

@DoubleD

I tried creating a GIF with your transition codes to no avail. Can you reduce your gif to 4 or 5 layers and show us what you are seeing?

! am so sorry and oh boy I feel stupid now! ! ! It is transparent The place I was inserting the image to, had a white background - I ran a little test with the following and realized what a dummy !

<html>
<head>
<style> 
body {
      background-color: #0000ff;
     }
</style>
</head>
<body>

<BR><BR>
 <img src="file:///C:\Users\MyName\Pictures\t1\Testing.gif" alt=" - Image Not Found -" width="500" height="500"> 
</body>
</html>

DoubleD · September 11, 2020

On the bright side I noticed I have to clean my edges and remove the white specks

Thanks You and sorry

AndrewDavid · September 11, 2020

@DoubleD Nice to see you got it sorted out. 😃

Pixey · September 11, 2020

2 hours ago, DoubleD said:

! am so sorry and oh boy I feel stupid now! ! ! It is transparent The place I was inserting the image to, had a white background - I ran a little test with the following and realized what a dummy !

No worries @DoubleD I had a feeling it was something like that. Glad you are back on track

LoudSilence · September 13, 2020

I keep getting this error (plugin still works, but this is really annoying)

Also, here is another interesting thing about the error.. (video)

AndrewDavid · September 13, 2020

Hi @LoudSilence

Can you provide a screenshot of your filetypes folder showing the IMAgif files?

That should help identifying the problem. Ensure the folder is sorted alphabetically.

LoudSilence · September 13, 2020

AndrewDavid · September 13, 2020

@LoudSilence

You are missing the IMAGif.DLC file

Go back to the .ZIP file and extract it to the Filetypes folder

LoudSilence · September 13, 2020

Thank you

Pixey · September 26, 2020

Hmmmm I tried it using your gif and it worked fine with no crash. How did you rotate the duplicated layer? I used Layers > Rotate / Zoom.

AndrewDavid · September 26, 2020

1 hour ago, Pixey said:

I used Layers > Rotate / Zoom.

So did I. It must be something specific to my system. Only the guru's of Paint can decipher the crash report.

As my example works for the first 3 layers, it is strange it fails when I add the fourth.

Pixey · September 26, 2020

57 minutes ago, welshblue said:

(needs balancing ☺️ ?)

After a quick garage job 🤣

Pixey · September 26, 2020

45 minutes ago, welshblue said:

Out of curiosity, not that I'll understand - why does the .agif plugin show unchecked layers ?

For some reason - that I do not know - this plugin recognizes the layers, whether they are checked or not! As you will have seen, by using Andrew's agif, one had to delete his layers with the crosses, even though they were unchecked, in order to get the wheel only 😁

Pixey · September 26, 2020

21 minutes ago, welshblue said:

You've just had a compliment, was reading this and wifey asked, is Cheryl Baker on Paint.NET 😉

I had to Google her (haven't lived in the UK since I was 5) and I must say I am very flattered - thank you @welshblue's wifey 👍

DoubleD · October 9, 2020

Just checking of I'm using this correctly

I'm Spelling a word out letter by letter
layer 1 has an image and I use //UseAsBackground

layer 2 I add the H //400ms

layer 3 is actually a duplicate of layer 2 and I add an e with //400ms

layer 4 is actually a duplicate of layer 3 and I add an l with //400ms

layer 5 is actually a duplicate of layer 4 and I add an l with //400ms

layer 6 is actually a duplicate of layer 5 and I add an o with //400ms

I then go back and add a few images in between to

if I want to add more, like a image of a dog I must duplicate layer6 so I don't loose my text

so layers are

H

He

Hel

hell

hello

To add images I duplicate the hello layer

Is this the best way or is there a better way?

Pixey · October 9, 2020

Hi @DoubleD

Layer 1 should be: //Background.

If the layers after the background are all going to be at: //40ms, you need only to name the first one with that speed. If you add a different speed to something that you later add, again, only name the first layer at the new speed).

If you want the Dog to be constant in the Gif, put the dog on the last layer and name it this: //foreground.

I hope that helps.

Here is a simple tutorial for you to see the layers line up:

DoubleD · October 9, 2020

34 minutes ago, Pixey said:

If the layers after the background are all going to be at: //40ms, you need only to name the first one with that speed. If you add a different speed to something that you later add, again, only name the first layer at the new speed).

If you want the Dog to be constant in the Gif, put the dog on the last layer and name it this: //foreground.

I hope that helps.

Here is a simple tutorial for you to see the layers line up:

Good to know you only need the speed set once - I was gong nuts adding speed to all the layers

The dog will be moving around too do I'll have to repeat that Hello layer bunch - I suppose I could duplicate the background and the hello layers, merge the layers down and then set a new //Background and add the dog there

Do I have an old plug in my txt doc has

Commands to define how the layer content will be used:
  UseAsBackground;
    Set this background for all following frames up to the next background command.
	UseAsBackground=false; means that the following frames do not use a background
  UseAsForeground;
    Set this foreground for all preciding frames up to a previous background command.
	UseAsForeground=false; means that the preciding frames do not use a foreground
  UseAsNote;
    Ignore layer. The layer may be used to draw help lines.
  UseAsDefault;
    Set the image in the layer as default image. Used if the viwer does not support
	animations. Has no effect in GIFs, will be handled like UseAsNote.
  UseAsSprite=NAME,ORIGINX,ORIGINY;

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