Wyrdysm Games

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...

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;

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.

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

I just use GM's built in sprite editor.

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