Good GIF converter?

D00D! · Post by **D00D!** » Fri May 01, 2009 11:21 am

Anyone knows a good GIF converter? I'm sitting on a bunch of frames that I want to make into a single GIF and most of the trials I tried can't do more than 5 at a time...

Post by **Arcalane** » Fri May 01, 2009 1:30 pm

I use the GIMP, personally. It's a bit finicky but once you get the hang of it, you can make GIFs easily. It's also useful for whipping up new section sprites.

Admittedly it's a bit 'heavy' solely for GIF creation, but at least it's free.

Ed:

A few notes on GIF creation;

1. To start, load the 'idle' frame of the weapon, then load all other 'firing' frames as layers. It helps if you number them sequentially.*
2. Convert to indexed mode manually via Image -> Mode -> Indexed. This gets you the best colour results than the default indexing.
3. Save as GIF after inserting the delay (40-100ms is good for forum display, but doesn't affect playback rate in-game) and make sure you save as an animation.

* for example;

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TwinACidle.png
TwinACFire1.png
TwinACFire2.png
TwinACFire3.png

Hege · Post by **Hege** » Fri May 01, 2009 1:31 pm

Well I'd recommend Unfreez for the animation and using GIMP or Irfanview to make the frames .gif for unfreez to handle unless they allready are .gif format.

D00D! · Post by **D00D!** » Fri May 01, 2009 1:58 pm

Thanks! Been wondering why I downloaded it a while ago.

Commodore111 · Post by **Commodore111** » Mon May 04, 2009 5:53 am

I just use GM's built in sprite editor.

Swamp Fox · Post by **Swamp Fox** » Mon May 04, 2009 8:11 am

It's command line, but I have to say that Gifsicle is the best I've ever used.