load animated gif in Haptek Player

[wgb14]

Hi

I wonder if there is any way to load animated graphics as backgrounds in the haptek player. I have seen several videos in the site using aniamted grpahics as backgrounds. Any ideas??

Thanks

[aladyblond]

i cannot answer for all but in the ones i made the graphics were made in a movie and a blue screen overlay was used. i have never been able to get gif to work in haptek.~~alady

[wgb14]

Hi aladybond

Thanks for the info!!!

[freddy888]

Haptek only uses BMP and JPG, sorry to say but gifs are not supported.  You could alter the background by swapping the background image though - try a forum search, I know someone was playing with this kind of thing.

[danbaltzell]

Ha, I thought it was a blue screen, I just couldn't drag it out of anyone yet. But, I still haven't figured out how to apply it over the blue screen...

I tried GIF's, but no go, it's pretty proprietary stuff, limited to bmp and jpg's, or colors using the LoadBackGrnd command in a script, I couldn't get any types of animations to load, which would have been pretty cool.  Here's examples from the Haptek Guide:

Examples:
LoadBackGrnd[ tex= [a.jpg] ]
Set the background to be "a.jpg"
LoadBackGrnd[ r= 0 g= 0 b= 1 ]
Set the background to be pure blue
LoadBackGrnd[ r= 0.5 g= 0.5 b= 0.5 ]
Set the background to be grey
LoadBackGrnd[ tex= [a.jpg] i0= 1 ]
Set "a.jpg" to be the environment map used, note that this will not set up the material to use an environment map


and on that note, I become average...

[aladyblond]

congrats average one..... humbly bowing in your presence.

in windows movie maker there are transitions and effects the blue screen is one of them you can download for free from the movie maker forum.
http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/Forums/ShowForumGroup.aspx?ForumGroupID=1
once you have it downloaded you add it to your movie between clips and then when you use the gif background your other movie will play over the top of it.~~alady

[freddy888]

This is about the closest I have come to something like animated gifs, it's the same kind of thing we did with Arakus' Christmas tree last year, except instead of swapping textures it should swap your backgrounds.  Alter the t= figures to change the duration each image is shown (in seconds).

Replace the 'yourimage' with the path and filename of your images.


Hap file Code :

#Haptek  Version= 1.00 HapType= script FileType= text


\clock [t= 0]\LoadBackGrnd [ file= [yourimage1.jpg]]
\clock [t= 1.287]\LoadBackGrnd [ file= [yourimage2.jpg]]
\clock [t= 4.108]\LoadBackGrnd [ file= [yourimage3.jpg]]
\clock [t= 10.626]\LoadBackGrnd [ file= [yourimage4.jpg]]
\clock [t= 14.091]\LoadBackGrnd [ file= [yourimage5.jpg]]
\clock [t= 16.444]\LoadBackGrnd [ file= [yourimage6.jpg]]
\clock [t= 19.417]\LoadBackGrnd [ file= [yourimage7.jpg]]
\clock [t= 21.417]\LoadBackGrnd [ file= [yourimage8.jpg]]
\clock [t= 23.417]\LoadBackGrnd [ file= [yourimage1.jpg]]
\clock [t= 25.417]\LoadBackGrnd [ file= [yourimage2.jpg]]
\clock [t= 27.417]\LoadBackGrnd [ file= [yourimage3.jpg]]
\clock [t= 29.417]\LoadBackGrnd [ file= [yourimage4.jpg]]
\clock [t= 31.417]\LoadBackGrnd [ file= [yourimage5.jpg]]
\clock [t= 33.417]\LoadBackGrnd [ file= [yourimage6.jpg]]
\clock [t= 19.417]\LoadBackGrnd [ file= [yourimage7.jpg]]
\clock [t= 21.417]\LoadBackGrnd [ file= [yourimage8.jpg]]

Hope it works []

[danbaltzell]

You mean like this:

http://www.savefile.com/files/6001295

swiped the backgrnd from youtube and the lips don't match but what the hay, it's sortta funny.  I nabbed the bluescreen by searching and found this file to be placed in:

C:Program FilesMovie MakersharedAddOnTFX\bluescreen.xml

and containing ascii:

<TransitionsAndEffects Version="1.0" >
<Transitions>
<TransitionDLL guid="{C5B19592-145E-11D3-9F04-006008039E37}" >
<Transition name="Bluescreen" iconid="12" comment="Makes first clip show through blue areas of second clip">
<Param name="KeyType" value="1"/>
<Param name="Similarity" value="100"/>
<Param name="Progress" value="0.0"/>
</Transition>
</TransitionDLL>
</Transitions>
</TransitionsAndEffects>


I have a hard time sometimes downloading from savefile.com