Re: Animation in LiveCode

2016-01-06 Thread Richmond
Here's an animated GIF travelling along a path: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=26110 Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription p

Re: Animation in LiveCode

2016-01-06 Thread Richmond
On 06/01/16 19:21, Richard Gaskin wrote: Richmond wrote: On 06/01/16 17:55, Richard Gaskin wrote: Richmond wrote: > http://denon-dj-asio-driver-mac.mac.novellshareware.com/info/pivot--revolution.html > > Oh, Super, it's multi-platform and its free! > > Animated GIFs all round. Ken Ray built

Re: Animation in LiveCode

2016-01-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: On 06/01/16 17:55, Richard Gaskin wrote: Richmond wrote: > http://denon-dj-asio-driver-mac.mac.novellshareware.com/info/pivot--revolution.html > > Oh, Super, it's multi-platform and its free! > > Animated GIFs all round. Ken Ray built a competing tool using LiveCode called Stykz

Re: Animation in LiveCode

2016-01-06 Thread Richmond
On 06/01/16 17:55, Richard Gaskin wrote: Richmond wrote: > http://denon-dj-asio-driver-mac.mac.novellshareware.com/info/pivot--revolution.html > > Oh, Super, it's multi-platform and its free! > > Animated GIFs all round. Ken Ray built a competing tool using LiveCode called Stykz, and while it

Re: Animation in LiveCode

2016-01-06 Thread Richmond
On 06/01/16 17:55, Richard Gaskin wrote: Richmond wrote: > http://denon-dj-asio-driver-mac.mac.novellshareware.com/info/pivot--revolution.html > > Oh, Super, it's multi-platform and its free! > > Animated GIFs all round. Ken Ray built a competing tool using LiveCode called Stykz, and while it

Re: Animation in LiveCode

2016-01-06 Thread Mark Talluto
> On Jan 6, 2016, at 7:55 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > Richmond wrote: > > http://denon-dj-asio-driver-mac.mac.novellshareware.com/info/pivot--revolution.html > > > > Oh, Super, it's multi-platform and its free! > > > > Animated GIFs all round. > > Ken Ray built a competing tool using LiveCode

Re: Animation in LiveCode

2016-01-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: > http://denon-dj-asio-driver-mac.mac.novellshareware.com/info/pivot--revolution.html > > Oh, Super, it's multi-platform and its free! > > Animated GIFs all round. Ken Ray built a competing tool using LiveCode called Stykz, and while it's not open source it's free as in gratis:

Re: Animation in LiveCode

2016-01-06 Thread Richmond
http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/man.html Um? Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-liv

Re: Animation in LiveCode

2016-01-06 Thread Richmond
On 06/01/16 03:45, William Prothero wrote: Thanks, Richmond and Mike: So…. the frame rate of the animated gif is set when the gif is made? And, the movement of the gif is controlled by the movespeed command. Obviously, these two speeds would need to be coordinated, or the tiger might look like

Re: Animation in LiveCode

2016-01-06 Thread Richmond
http://denon-dj-asio-driver-mac.mac.novellshareware.com/info/pivot--revolution.html Oh, Super, it's multi-platform and its free! Animated GIFs all round. Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to s

Re: Animation in LiveCode

2016-01-06 Thread Richmond
On 06/01/16 03:45, William Prothero wrote: Thanks, Richmond and Mike: So…. the frame rate of the animated gif is set when the gif is made? And, the movement of the gif is controlled by the movespeed command. Obviously, these two speeds would need to be coordinated, or the tiger might look like

Re: Animation in LiveCode

2016-01-05 Thread William Prothero
Thanks, Richmond and Mike: So…. the frame rate of the animated gif is set when the gif is made? And, the movement of the gif is controlled by the movespeed command. Obviously, these two speeds would need to be coordinated, or the tiger might look like its slipping on wet grass, pawing the groun

Re: Animation in LiveCode

2016-01-05 Thread Mike Bonner
Alternatively, if you want more control of the animation, you could use a game loop, and move the tigers around (set the loc... ) as well as manually choosing which frame to show when using "currentFrame" On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > use "lock moves" before your moves, an

Re: Animation in LiveCode

2016-01-05 Thread Mike Bonner
use "lock moves" before your moves, and add "without waiting" at the end of each move command. Unlock moves after you have all moves queued. Also, rather than mess with setting the move speed a second time, just set the loc of the images to where you want. Or even better, since they walk off scree

Re: Animation in LiveCode

2016-01-05 Thread Richmond
Thanks to the good offices of Brahmanathaswami and GIMP I have removed the annoying surrounding round one of the frames in the Tiger animated GIF. I have uploaded a new version of the proof-of-concept stack: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=26110&p=136351#p136351 featuring 2 anim

Re: Animation in LiveCode

2016-01-05 Thread Richmond
To make GIFs with GIMP, you're going to need both GIMP itself as well as the GIMP Animation Package (or GIMP GAP, for those who like recursive acronyms). Get GIMP: http://www.gimp.org/ Get GIMP GAP: http://www.gimpusers.com/downloads GIMP recognizes animated GIF files as a file with multiple l

Re: Animation in LiveCode

2016-01-04 Thread Richmond
On 05/01/16 03:43, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: Richmond: Yes of course that would work, but moving the animated GIF around on top of a video? Player I don't see why that shouldn't be possible: after all, if I've actually got one thing right it is that a layer is a layer and they don't

Re: Animation in LiveCode

2016-01-04 Thread Alex Shaw
Mac-only but Hype3 is pretty good too.. http://tumult.com/hype/ regards alex On 5/01/2016 4:14 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 1/4/2016 2:20 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: You should certainly get Flash Pro on your list of tools to use. It can export perfect frame rate H.264, and also image sequences

Re: Animation in LiveCode

2016-01-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/4/2016 2:20 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: You should certainly get Flash Pro on your list of tools to use. It can export perfect frame rate H.264, and also image sequences or animated GIFs. Another option is Graphic Converter, which will also export an image sequence to gif. You can set the ti

Re: Animation in LiveCode

2016-01-04 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
Richmond: Yes of course that would work, but moving the animated GIF around on top of a video? Player FYI: your tiger has this white rectangular border that flashes on each cycle through the frames. I turned off the border width and the 3D etc in the inspector, but it did not go away. Perhaps

Re: Animation in LiveCode

2016-01-04 Thread [-hh]
Classical tools are, for all main platforms available, imagemagick or, faster, graphicsmagick. Both are callable via shell from LC on all desktop platforms. They easily convert frames from a lot of different image formats to gif (also, for example, multi-page PDFs!). Transparency is one of a bun

Re: Animation in LiveCode

2016-01-04 Thread Richmond
You could have an animated GIF that moved around in top of a background . . . Richmond. Here's a proof-of-concept stack: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=26110&p=136301#p136301 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.run

Re: Animation in LiveCode

2016-01-04 Thread Colin Holgate
I tested that too. When exporting from Flash Pro you can set the animation to be transparent. In LiveCode it kept up the 60 fps rate even when animating on top of a text field. > On Jan 4, 2016, at 3:18 PM, Richmond wrote: > >> [Is it possible to have transparency in a play object? I doubt i

Re: Animation in LiveCode

2016-01-04 Thread Colin Holgate
You should certainly get Flash Pro on your list of tools to use. It can export perfect frame rate H.264, and also image sequences or animated GIFs. I just did a test export, and the animation played back well in LiveCode, even at 60 fps. ___ use-live

Re: Animation in LiveCode

2016-01-04 Thread Richmond
On 04/01/16 22:09, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: I’m “back at it” trying to discover all possible means for animation in Livecode. All the high end tools seem to export to video: create your frame based “thing” whatever it is.. then you save as h.264. I don’t find much that will export to