I've had a go at doing animated titles in the past with poor results, so does anyone have any good advice on how to do good animated titles? Perhaps I haven't been using the correct programs or something.
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I assume you do mean tiles and not titles Phil, cos I thought the only 'animated' titles were ones making Dizzy roll around in attract mode.
Jamie has always recommended 'Gimp' as it's free, I use Corel Paintshop but still use the 'tga works' in the main Dizzyage package to turn the 'pictures' and 'masks' into tiles, so really even MS Paint would work fine to actually create the pictures. Although a package that can highlight a particular piece of a picture and move it around can be good - such as your princess in Grimm Dizzy as you have a tile with one part having her crying and the other part with her hands in her lap. If you copied the 'crying' picture and then made a copy moving her 'upper part' a few pixels right and down as the second frame of the picture and then just tidying up the 'backbone' would be fine as an animated tile.
Another method would be to explode a animated tile that's similar to what you want to do from a Dizzy game (using tga works) and then just alter each frame to fit your needs.
Of course, if you do mean titles then just ignore this.
Jamie has always recommended 'Gimp' as it's free, I use Corel Paintshop but still use the 'tga works' in the main Dizzyage package to turn the 'pictures' and 'masks' into tiles, so really even MS Paint would work fine to actually create the pictures. Although a package that can highlight a particular piece of a picture and move it around can be good - such as your princess in Grimm Dizzy as you have a tile with one part having her crying and the other part with her hands in her lap. If you copied the 'crying' picture and then made a copy moving her 'upper part' a few pixels right and down as the second frame of the picture and then just tidying up the 'backbone' would be fine as an animated tile.
Another method would be to explode a animated tile that's similar to what you want to do from a Dizzy game (using tga works) and then just alter each frame to fit your needs.
Of course, if you do mean titles then just ignore this.
lol oops yes tiles, that what happens when you type in the dark.
I've never been able to get on with Gimp, I may have to give it another look, I've edited already made animated tiles in the past (turned dizzy into zaks) but never been able to do it from scratch.
Looking to make an animated spider thing. :wink: i'll have a good crack at it.
I've never been able to get on with Gimp, I may have to give it another look, I've edited already made animated tiles in the past (turned dizzy into zaks) but never been able to do it from scratch.
Looking to make an animated spider thing. :wink: i'll have a good crack at it.
why not just use the tarantula 3 tile, that's a pretty good 'arachnid' - latest one is in 'Dizzy and the jewel thief'. (tile 1078 in custom).
Don't think I've seen that, i'll give it a look.. might be able to modify it.