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Snicklin
19 Oct 2009, 22:28
Okay, check it out.
So, I just made this Flash animation of a worm playing the air guitar, and I tried over and over again to convert it to a .gif file, but when I published it, it came out all discolored and didn't animate.
Is there any way to fix this? I would be most greatful if someboody would help me here.
Thanks!

Melon
19 Oct 2009, 22:42
Soooooo.....
where is it?

Snicklin
19 Oct 2009, 23:54
Maybe I would upload it and post a link to it as an .swf file if you know a good place to upload Flash files. (Other than DeviantArt)

yauhui
20 Oct 2009, 15:05
www.willhostforfood.com perhaps?

Snicklin
20 Oct 2009, 16:43
Cool! Thanks! Here (http://willhostforfood.com/users/S/Snicklin/worm_animation2.swf) it is.

Vader
20 Oct 2009, 21:35
FYI, if you want to convert a Flash animation into an animated GIF you need all the animation to be on the stage's timeline. Any animation within movieclips and such will not play out. Instead only the first frame of that movieclip will be displayed.
For example, if the stage's timeline has 2 layers and in each layer is a ball, one ball._y=100 and the other ball._y=300, right, and the top ball (ball._y=100) is animated to move across the stage with a tween in the stage's timeline and the bottom ball (ball._y=300) is a movieclip and in the movieclip the ball moves across the stage with a tween, when you convert to GIF only the top ball will move. Does that make any sense?
In AS 2.0 it might look like this:
if(animation==_root) {
GIF.works
} else {
GIF.doesn'twork
}

SupSuper
21 Oct 2009, 00:10
That's a pretty cool animation. :)
Flash's Export Movie option is kinda crap for converting to GIF (I assume that's what you're using), I suggest you use Publish instead.
Go to File > Publish Settings, select GIF and make sure you pick the marked options:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/publish_gif.png
After that press Publish and you should get a proper GIF in the same folder as the FLA file, and any movieclips will still animate just like in Flash (so you don't have to worry about what Vader said), just make sure the main timeline is long enough for them to animate, that's how long the GIF will be.

Vader
21 Oct 2009, 14:27
Oh, cool. :)

WormGod
28 Dec 2009, 15:44
Cool! Thanks! Here (http://willhostforfood.com/users/S/Snicklin/worm_animation2.swf) it is.
All I see are advertisments for web domains and godaddy.com.
Am I missing something?

SupSuper
29 Dec 2009, 21:08
Yes, you're two months late. :p

robowurmz
29 Dec 2009, 22:20
WHFF is sadly no more, gentlemen.
Shed a silent tear in mourning.

Explorer
27 Jan 2010, 05:59
FYI, if you want to convert a Flash animation into an animated GIF you need all the animation to be on the stage's timeline. Any animation within movieclips and such will not play out. Instead only the first frame of that movieclip will be displayed.
Sorry that I bumped the thread just to tell one thing.
The Movie Clips in Flash can be converted into Graphic symbols, which also works when exporting GIFs.
(Did anyone know that Graphic symbols can contain animation?)
http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/5422/graphicsymbol.png
(http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/5422/graphicsymbol.png)
Here, you can select whether you want to play it once, loop, or show a single frame.

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