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[AlphaDMF]

All The SHP's are supposed to make up an animation or state.

[Venom]

you got some pic's of it Alpha? thats what these guys crave here, and its generally nice.

[AlphaDMF]

Here is a screenshot of the silo. (SmiffGIG wanted to see what I can do) note, that this is directly from the concept art, which now has damaged and fill frames.

[Tratos]

Nice, but it looks grainy.

[Venom]

which now has damaged and fill frames.

So that means its got the Tiberium filling up it in it? and the damages? thats pretty cool, Alpha. I must agree though it is a bit grainy, but it looks pretty good otherwise. the red is remappable though, right?

[AlphaDMF]

yes, I agree also that the grainy effect is present, but this is to give it noise. and yes all the anims are done, apart from the buildup, as I am not exprienced with those. I am nearly done with the classic tesla coil. The red is remappable.

[Venom]

awesome. maybe I can expirement with a buildup, I never done them as well but hey, theres a first time for anything.

[AlphaDMF]

Heres a screen of the retro tesla coil

[Venom]

have you tried using jpeg for your images? i think they come out a little bit clearer. nice coils

[AlphaDMF]

hmm...I will try that, thankyou for the compliment. I have made an artillery for the soviets

[Venom]

nifty little things, artillery's be. well I think its time for me to download the silo, and head on to work. The silo was one of the things I was planning on doing for my mod, but it seems you are very skilled at doing it. Thank you!

[xgamer]

have you tried using jpeg for your images? i think they come out a little bit clearer. nice coils

Are you kidding?!?

The GIF format preserves every pixel of the original image, but is limited to 256 colors.

The JPG and JPEG format features compression and smoothing to make huge pictures (that are several thousand pixels wide and tall) have a very small file size.

There is no way the GIF format could produce that result.


As for buildups, if you want to learn how to do them, the best thing to do is to examine the existing ones. Learn the format and technique.

[Sydr0]

that thing looks like a tent :?

[Venom]

take a look at the concept art, its accurate in every way as far as I can tell, except the light grey metal looks kinda funny

[AlphaDMF]

That would be the gif making the image more grainy than a corn field

I only have to do 32 frames for the idle anim for the tesla coil and the firing anims after. all damaged anims are done

[Deathblow Luc]

Hm, you can make it JPG so it easier to look at, and still hard to rip (though no one here is a ripper anyway)

[AlphaDMF]

Idle anims for tesla coil done (also in damaged and heavily damaged frames.) only the firing anims remain

[AlphaDMF]

o.k I need help now. I have made the 34-frame SHP anim for the tesla coil, and edited the palette in wills SHP editor, when I saved the file, it was described by windows as a shp file, but xcc mixer reads it as "unknown" is there a solution to this problem?

[bullethead]

when you save it try this. nameofthing.shp typed in the box. I know thats what I have to do when I save shps. or else it wont work.

EDIT: If you cant figure the problem out you can send it to me. Ill figure it out in a couple of seconds. Ill even fix it fully for ya so you dont have to do anything. And I wont steal your work either. Im not like that.

[AlphaDMF]

it is a very annoying problem indeed. (The animation pallete is applied, so no graphical help is needed in those riegons.) The "reteslaa" file is composed of 34 pixel perfect frames which act simiular to the old tesla coils in the first mission submovie (little bolts jump between the coils, and the coils also have a glowing effect too) In the final frames the tesla ball is knocked off and the tower is on its last hit points. Ill send GIF's of the inactive frames to keep the interest flowing. If there is any of course