ok... i searched the board for it, but could not find it. so here it goes:

im trying to make a plug for EVN that does some sound tweaks and explosion graphic changes. the problem is, the images i would like to use for explosions are in animated gif form, while EVN handles all animations in layed-out bmp form (NOTE: im using WINDOWS XP). is there any way i can convert the gif into that "nova form" without hand-drawing each frame several times over?

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Try Macromedia's Fireworks tool.

Dave @ ATMOS

trying... trying.... trying....

can't do it! what's the tool that does the process?

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My parents died in Roswell incident.

Image ready should also have no trouble with the process, if you have it. Just import it, and export as a a serries of BMPs. To uget it into a matrix, either do it in photoshop, or ocnvert to a viedo.
Joe

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thanks a lot.
on the side note, how was the EVN ship graphics processed during development? was it done by a 3D program, converted to gif, and then to bmp? or was it something else?

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My parents died in Roswell incident.

On the Mac, we've got this handy tool called m2s (p2s, part of the same package, works basically the same way) that automatically converts a movie (in .mov form) to a laid-out PICT sprite. From that, we use EnRLE to convert the sprite into RLE format, which is what Nova uses. So, basically, we render the image as a movie in the 3d prog, run it through these two utils, and it's done.

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