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Gifs not animating on import

A topic by vermis created 26 days ago Views: 80 Replies: 2
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vermis26 days ago(+1)

Hello, and thank you for the wonderful tool. I'm trying to import a bunch of gifs made in wigglypaint, but I'm running into an issue where the .gif doesn't animate once on the card--it's just a still frame. I have tried both dragging-dropping the gif into decker and going File > Import Image, but still have the same result.

I didn't see anything in the documentation that directly addressed how to fix this. Help would be appreciated because I know that you can have .gifs in decker, I just don't know where I've gone wrong (and would really rather not have to redraw all those gifs I made 馃槄)

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Internet JanitorDeveloper26 days ago

If you import images into Decker (via drag-and-drop or Import Image), Decker interprets them as still images, decoding the first frame of GIFs and then applying dithering to convert them to 1-bit. Decker itself does not have any built-in ability to represent animated images.

There are, however, Contraptions that extend Decker with animated GIF playback (among many other things). See the linked thread for several variations on a GIF importer/player, some of which support color. Decker's palette will need to be configured to match the palette you used in WigglyPaint to get all the colors correct when you re-import the GIFs; as long as the images were all made using the same palette, you should be able to simply save WigglyPaint to your desktop, drag-and-drop the deck onto Decker and use the Font/DA Mover to import the "patterns" resource.

While I'm afraid it doesn't help much if you've already saved your drawings as GIFs,  for future reference the easiest way to import animations from WigglyPaint into Decker is to not export GIFs, but instead copy the "wiggler" contraption directly from WigglyPaint into decker, as demonstrated in this thread.

Does that make any sense?

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vermis26 days ago(+1)

Oh dear! I got so caught up in the excitement of drawing with wigglepaint that I didn't search to see if *it* had any documentation. Thank you very much for the contraption, I'll implement it now and see how things go :)

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