free program for animations?

[AriesFireTiger]

I'm looking for a free program I can download to make an animation for my game. I want to have a news broadcast play on a large television[SIZE=13.63636302948px](will cover 2 tiles x 2 tiles) [/SIZE]in my RM game. Move events are giving me grief, and this would be a million times easier, for me, to just make a GIF and Show Animation in an event

Thanks!

 

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Blender maybe? No...

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Google >> "open source animation software" Press enter? 

Pencil2D (first result)....

I mean... did you actually searched first before asking? 

As for NON FREE Game Character Hub! PERIOD!

Edit:

These two look nice too!

http://sourceforge.net/projects/synfig/?source=directory

http://sourceforge.net/projects/tupi2d/?source=directory

 

[Andar]

to just make a GIF and Show Animation in an event

Unfortunately it doesn't work that way.


GIF's aren't supported by the engine, and the show animation command refers to the animations defined in the database (which are completely different from GIFs.


However, it can be done with "show animation", you just need every picture in the format used for animation sheets (which is five pictures side by side and several rows as needed up/down), and then define the animation frames for the TV (including sound and other effects) in the database.


For those animation sheets, GIMP or Photoshop are enough - no need for special programs.

 

[Bex]

Grafics Gale Free Edition can Handle Gif Pictures.

Or you can Create Animations with it Frame by Frame and you  got preview Option.

In the end you need to Safe your Animation, Picture by Picture as PNG Grafic.

Than Import into RPG Maker and use show Picture command and wait commands to create your animation.

If the map is able to scroll while animation is running, than u have to include a picture to map fix script.

The Database Animation Editor is also a very Good Option to create such stuff.

 

[Milennin]

Show animation is used to play a battle animation, not a .GIF.

 

[Bex]

Show animation is used to play a battle animation, not a .GIF.

U can also Play animation on the Game map on target Events.

And yes Gifs would not work, but changing a gif into png pictures should not be a problem.

(Not even for starters)

 

[Andar]

but changing a gif into png pictures should not be a problem.


(Not even for starters)

Not exactly.
Single-Picture gifs can easily be changed to pngs.


Animated gifs are something entirely other, because you need to change them into multiple pngs - some animated gifs would result in several hundred pngs, and that is not easy to handle.

 

[AriesFireTiger]

Cool, I got the info I need. Thanks folks!

I'll just make a battle animation out of the frames I made.

I was a dummy, but I got it figured out now, thanks again

 

[Bex]

You may need MOG Hunters Anti animation Lag Script.

Ace is deffect /broken/buggy while playing multiple animation on the screen couses player lag .

And theres lag if you use to big grafic Files, even with only one animation it lags, the Script fixes that also.

 

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You may need MOG Hunters Anti animation Lag Script.

Ace is deffect /broken/buggy while playing multiple animation on the screen couses player lag .

And theres lag if you use to big grafic Files, even with only one animation it lags, the Script fixes that also.

He is right.

And you are not a dummy!