.gif?

troodon · Post by **troodon** » December 28th, 2006, 2:25 pm

How do you post an animation on the forum so that the animation is running? This was done with the new cockatrice images in its thread.

Post by **Viliam** » December 28th, 2006, 2:36 pm

You need some software which can produce animated gifs.

For example ImageMagick. Or any other.

Post by **Iris** » December 28th, 2006, 4:14 pm

If I remember correctly, the GIMP can export multiple layers to animated GIFs. I used that feature before, but I don't remember exactly how it worked.

traverser · Post by **traverser** » December 28th, 2006, 10:18 pm

I used Gimp and took many layers as the consecutive frames of animations. Gimp told me that .gif cannot handle layers only animation and something else, so I chose animation and in advanced options chose to not repeat frame and could set speed between frames
At least that is the way I think I did it

Post by **Zhukov** » December 28th, 2006, 10:18 pm

It can be done in the GIMP quite easily.

1) Organise your image so it has one frame per layer.
2) Save image with the extension '.gif'.
3) It will give the option to 'save as animation'. Do that.
4) To edit the timing of frames, use the method described by turin here.

Hope this helps.