Microsoft GIF Animator

When I previewed an animation I made, the sprites tended to leave a trail of themselves. When it looped, the trail stayed as well. Does anyone know how to get rid of these trails?

Try changing the transparency color. I always use that lightish blue towards the bottom of the colors. If that doesn't work, then talk to latio scaptur. He told me how to use it a few days ago. See my avy? He's who told me how to make it.

Here are examples of what it can do!

Programming is like this too. If you don't put a rectangle behind the sprite, then it will leave a trail when it moves. With the rectangle of random (preferably background color) color, it will erase itself as it moves. Problem solved?

Thanks. The triail of sprites is gone, but now I have another problem. The trail problem seems to have left the sprites a tad grainy. The sprites look like they slpet in a closet full of spikes on both ends. Does anyone know how to fix this one?

Hm... Mabey consider changing the transparency color. Or you may have to start over...

or you could just deal with it being grainy; that's just the way GIFs are.

Originally Posted by DarkZeroHyrule

Thanks. The triail of sprites is gone, but now I have another problem. The trail problem seems to have left the sprites a tad grainy. The sprites look like they slpet in a closet full of spikes on both ends. Does anyone know how to fix this one?

I know this one too. You have to draw the square of color before you place the sprite. If you draw it after the sprite, it erases it immediately after you draw it, and that's not good. I had that problem when programming SpamKiller earlier. The spam just looked like flickering yellow blobs. So, yeah. You have to draw the square underneath the sprite.

The grainy problem may have been because I copied it straight from Macromedia Flash. My bad, but now I've got another problem. I'm making images in GIMP and putting them in the animator, but the animation is incredibly fast! How do I slow it down?

EDIT: I figured that out just now so I tried to put it in as my avatar. I tried uploading it from my computer, but it was an invalid file, so I hosted it on photobucket and tried it again with the URL in the "Insert URL" slot. It was invalid also! Does anyone know what's wrong?

I believe the only file types that an avatar will take is a JPEG or GIF. I'm not sure, though. It's been a while since I checked (September 17, 2005, 4:37 PM, actually), since I have never changed my avatar and I never will (isn't that cow just awesome?), so I could be wrong.

Originally Posted by DarkZeroHyrule

My bad, but now I've got another problem. I'm making images in GIMP and putting them in the animator, but the animation is incredibly fast! How do I slow it down?

Decrease the frame rate or increase the millisecond delay, depending on which formats you use.