Animation art SHP rotation

felastine · Cyborg Engineer **Joined**: 10 May 2011

Is there a animation art tag that gives an animation a random rotation when spawned? I can't seem to find a relevant tag in the Deezire guide on Animation Overlays.

I am using the invisible projectile with flame trailer way to simulate a flamethrower. It looks rather dull since each trailer animation looks absolutely the same except a one or two frame offset.

If there is indeed no such tag, can someone suggest how I should go about improving my flame trailer?

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Atomic_Noodles · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Oct 2011

use a better animation.

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felastine · Cyborg Engineer **Joined**: 10 May 2011

Of course, and obviously if I could find one.

Atomic_Noodles · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Oct 2011

http://ppmforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=40231

You can use the napalm set. editing it by deleting some extra frames,etc.

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felastine · Cyborg Engineer **Joined**: 10 May 2011

Thanks. Can give it a try.

deathreaperz · Commander **Joined**: 20 May 2013 **Location**: Indonesia

Atomic_Noodles wrote:

You can use the napalm set.

I'd prefer DonutArnold's at "explosion for everyone" thread.

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Atomic_Noodles · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Oct 2011

That is the topic thread I linked to. Confused

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deathreaperz · Commander **Joined**: 20 May 2013 **Location**: Indonesia

Atomic_Noodles wrote:

That is the topic thread I linked to. Confused

I'm at phone and I'm blind of that link :X

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felastine · Cyborg Engineer **Joined**: 10 May 2011

I downloaded one of the gifs and tried to import it into SHP builder. The first frame of the gif is repeated 27 times (the gif has 27 frames).

With "View Only The First File Of the Package" checked, I get 27 times of the first frame.

With it unchecked, I get only the first frame.

Atomic_Noodles · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Oct 2011

Open the GIF in photoshop and import each frame by frame...

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Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

open image in IrfanView
select Options->Extract All Frames (use png format)
rename files so they start with 0000 (you can use IrfanViews batch conversion)
SHP Builder Import image and select the 0000 image
->voilá, all frames imported

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