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How do you get a moving icon???
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12/09/03 10:29 PM GMT
Hey guys.... do you know how to get a moving icon?? cuz they're sweet
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It's better to say nothing and let people wonder if you're stupid, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
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its all down to gif's. GIF files arnt just still images but can run as animated sequence. so if you get hold of a gif generating program you can put together an animated icon.. just remember you have to keep it within the specified icon pixel 60 x 60 and 5Kb. infact ive been playing around with making GIF based desktop wallpapers which have animations built into them..... unfortunately the caedes site picture coding will change uploaded GIF's into Jpeg...(or so caedes tells me :D) actually the GIF i uploaded without any imagewhen i tried. Ive been using free gif animator programs that i found searching on google... and now have got myself ULEAD Gif Animator.
(if anyone wants to see my animated wallpapers im going to be posting them on my msn group websapce and linking them in an upcoming image, they anrt wonders of modern animation... just subtle effects and some jerky fledgling attempts.. i'm new to animation)
(if anyone wants to see my animated wallpapers im going to be posting them on my msn group websapce and linking them in an upcoming image, they anrt wonders of modern animation... just subtle effects and some jerky fledgling attempts.. i'm new to animation)
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Just FYI I really hate animated icons. If they start bothering me I'm likely to tell the server to automagically kill them on sight. A well designed and site-integrated icon is much more impressive in my opinion.
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-caedes
Pierre, there goes your eagle...
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"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." Bertrand Russell
Thanks ::grimbug! I'm really confused now with all that high teck talk (I don't have a clue what a GIF is) don't laugh!! Sorry caedes- - I'll probably just stick with a still one. Thanks anyways, ::grimbug!
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It's better to say nothing and let people wonder if you're stupid, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
lol.. if caedes didnt hate them so.. id offer to make you one
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- "I dont have my own opinions, i just get them from books i read"
AMEN CAEDES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Thanks, ::grimbug! :-} I'm just gonna get a new picture, though.
Ha-Ha Sherpa.
Ha-Ha Sherpa.
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It's better to say nothing and let people wonder if you're stupid, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Oops! this picture was supposed to be my icon, but I guess it's too blurry. I just made it on paint! It's soooo hard to get a picture that is less than 5Kb - I've tried about twenty so far and they are all 10kb or more. :-(
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It's better to say nothing and let people wonder if you're stupid, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Try saving the image as a gif. It should easily fit in 5kB even with a bunch of colors.
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-caedes
I think moving (articulating) icons are a huge visual distraction. Cute, maybe -- but they grow real old real fast.
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"Success is getting what you like. Happiness is liking what you get." -anonymous
hey, i like my animated icon!
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**an open mind allows one to experience the beauty of existence
I don't. It's annoying.
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"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." Bertrand Russell
okay, for the complete idiot who knows nothing and never will know anything, how do you format a picture to use for your icon?
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ok what you can do is go to microsoft paint, assuming you have microsoft, and do format(i think)<<stretch/skew you might have to play with it a while to make sure you don't make things to small or too large but yeah that's how
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-"Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it."<<American Beauty; --Merry Christmas to All and to all a good day/night!
Thanks everybody for your comments.
THANK YOU caedes- - it finally worked!!!!
THANK YOU caedes- - it finally worked!!!!
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It's better to say nothing and let people wonder if you're stupid, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Pierre, yours was better before. Now it looks like it's been shot and stuffed...
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-Everyone is entitled to my opinion-
Think I prefer it moving. Now it doesn't seem to be moving at all - maybe it's just my computer.
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"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." Bertrand Russell
I think a bit of animated steam coming out of the burger wouldn't be too distracting. But I don't know how to do it. And Pierre, your bird still isn't moving.
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"Success is getting what you like. Happiness is liking what you get." -anonymous
I have been inspired, for my next icon (after xmas) I am going to try doing a terregen animation and use that as an avatar...
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-Everyone is entitled to my opinion-
Samatar: Curious to see that!
Tracy: After the comments above, I returned to my moving eagle :-)
Tracy: After the comments above, I returned to my moving eagle :-)
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MERRY CHRISTMAS !!!
good- I like the eagle better when it's moving too! :-}
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It's better to say nothing and let people wonder if you're stupid, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Sam: what, no more Jasmine? *a tear begins to well*
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"Success is getting what you like. Happiness is liking what you get." -anonymous
oooo- the hat's cool! :-}
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It's better to say nothing and let people wonder if you're stupid, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
I tried to do an animated icon today of Jasmine with a waggy tail, but even when I reduced the quality and the color until it was practically black and white, the file size was still to large ( about 11 kb). Anyone have any ideas how I can make it smaller and still make it look decent?
PS Pierre, I LOVE your New Years Eagle... that bowtie is so spiffy!
PS Pierre, I LOVE your New Years Eagle... that bowtie is so spiffy!
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-Everyone is entitled to my opinion-
Samatar: ceades told me to save my icon as a gif (see comment above) and it worked.
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It's better to say nothing and let people wonder if you're stupid, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Moving Icons are cool up until a certain point, I've had mine for one day and already its driving me nuts!
What do you think?
What do you think?
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It's really cute, but it moves too much- try having it move just it's hands or head or something...
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At times life is wicked and I just can't see the light, a silver lining sometimes isn't enough to make some wrongs seem right, whatever life brings, I've been through everything, and now I'm on my knees again but I know I must go on, although I hurt I must be strong, because inside I know that many feel this way... ~Creed~
I know! you can have it move just it's hands and mouth with it's head still or slightly bobbing
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At times life is wicked and I just can't see the light, a silver lining sometimes isn't enough to make some wrongs seem right, whatever life brings, I've been through everything, and now I'm on my knees again but I know I must go on, although I hurt I must be strong, because inside I know that many feel this way... ~Creed~
I really love that Sam. Your avatar is awesome! Can't see, but is that a Canadian flag?
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"Success is getting what you like. Happiness is liking what you get." -anonymous
That's an Aussie flag, and Jasime is anxiously awaiting her entrance upon the stage.
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"Success is getting what you like. Happiness is liking what you get." -anonymous
That's a cool icon, Samatar!
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At times life is wicked and I just can't see the light, a silver lining sometimes isn't enough to make some wrongs seem right, whatever life brings, I've been through everything, and now I'm on my knees again but I know I must go on, although I hurt I must be strong, because inside I know that many feel this way... ~Creed~
I can't even figure out how to post an icon, but I'm working on it......
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There we go.. is my new animated ( well not really ) icon any good ???
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- "I dont have my own opinions, i just get them from books i read"
how do create your own moving icon?
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There is one rule for happiness: Don't sweat the small stuff and all of it's small stuff.
As far as I know you need software that is designed specifically to create animated icons. I used "ulead gif animator" whcih was a free download. It only worked for a limited time though. There are probably others around.
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-Everyone is entitled to my opinion-
read my first post on this ... but basically you need an animation program..(a GIF editor... 'Graphics Interchange Format) to create a tiny animation file. Im using Ulead Gif Animator 5.. my icon is a very basic animation.. just simply 5 frames looped together using a time delay so they aren't annoyingly hectic!
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- "I dont have my own opinions, i just get them from books i read"
i just got a new pc from dell and it has all kinds of new programs, so i'll check to see if that came with it...thanks!
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There is one rule for happiness: Don't sweat the small stuff and all of it's small stuff.