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DarkBASIC Discussion / Question about animated BMP files

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Kenan
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Hi!

I wonder if there is a free utility which would enable me to convert GIF animations to the BMP ones.
It seems that the trial version of Dark Basic doesn't allow use of GIF animated files,(?) so I'm trying to find a way to convert those to BMP.(animations)

Maybe I'm doing something wrong here..anywho, any help would be apreciated!

Kenan
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Hamish McHaggis
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Posted: 2nd Mar 2003 20:48
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Can you even animate bmp files? I don't think you can, just write a code in DB that does it for you, like...

for l=1 to 100
sprite 1,x,y,l
wait 40
next l

or you could always use animation files (avi) instead of bitmaps.

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Kenan
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Hmmm..AVI?
I might find this info usefull.

Thx!

Kenan

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Kenan
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I tried loading AVI file, but it didn't work.
Am I suppose to use LOAD BITMAP command for those or something else?

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Zach
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Just try load animationfor .AVI files cause .BMP's cant be animated...

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Kenan
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Yeah, I tried that and it worked. (went on to edit my previous post but there was some error?)

The thing with AVI files is, it seems to me they don't get along with SPRITE function..I still have no idea how treat them compared to BMP files, but this is for another topic..

Thx again!

Kenan

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Zach
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Check the help file for a command to place animations... that should help....

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Kentaree
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I would not suggest using .avi files as sprites in games. BMP files cannot be animated, but you can find utilities to convert each image in a gif file into a bmp, lined up horizontally and vertically, side by side. Then, by loading the bitmap, and using the get image command to get each picture frame, you can use the sprite command, and change the used image by changing the variable image in
sprite spriteNumber,xPos,yPos,image.

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If you have a bitmap file like I described, this code will
make the 10 frames into images 1 to 10 and will loop the anim. Hope this helps ^_^

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