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#1 2008-12-19 16:22:10

Lucario621
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How do you bring animated GIFs to scratch?

I've heard that Zelda123 (I think) and Archmage do it, so how to you bring animated gifs to scratch. For example when I go to that mcleodgaming.com sprites place, and I right click on one of the animations and copy it into paint, it just becomes,  1 picture. Is the process I'm doing incorrect? Am I doing the wrong thing to put it into paint? WHAT DO I DO?


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#2 2008-12-19 16:28:27

archmage
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Re: How do you bring animated GIFs to scratch?

Don't put it into paint. Just download the picture by right clicking and pressing save as.


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#3 2008-12-19 16:30:02

Lucario621
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Re: How do you bring animated GIFs to scratch?

archmage wrote:

Don't put it into paint. Just download the picture by right clicking and pressing save as.

Ok...let me try...


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#4 2008-12-19 16:32:48

Lucario621
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Re: How do you bring animated GIFs to scratch?

Wowzerz It Works Archmage Your Amazing


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#5 2008-12-19 16:35:53

Lucario621
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Re: How do you bring animated GIFs to scratch?

And to think before I used to go to the sprite sheet, copy it into paint, bring it to scratch, and more.


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#6 2008-12-19 19:59:39

valitakpa
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Registered: 2008-10-30
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Re: How do you bring animated GIFs to scratch?

I have a project  where I added a gif earth. I just looked on Google and saved it with "save as...". You save it with any name you want. Then you import it to Scratch. A lot of images appear like costumes. To "play" the gif image just put:
[blocks]<when green flag clicked>
<forever>
<next costume>
<wait(0.01)secsc>
<end>[/blocks]
Some images don't work (personal experiences) but most of them work.
Hope that helped!


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#7 2008-12-19 20:33:05

Lucario621
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Re: How do you bring animated GIFs to scratch?

valitakpa wrote:

I have a project  where I added a gif earth. I just looked on Google and saved it with "save as...". You save it with any name you want. Then you import it to Scratch. A lot of images appear like costumes. To "play" the gif image just put:
[blocks]<when green flag clicked>
<forever>
<next costume>
<wait(0.01)secsc>
<end>[/blocks]
Some images don't work (personal experiences) but most of them work.
Hope that helped!

Lol I already got helped. But thanks anyway.


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#8 2009-01-26 03:40:12

DougV2
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Registered: 2008-03-22
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Re: How do you bring animated GIFs to scratch?

archmage wrote:

Don't put it into paint. Just download the picture by right clicking and pressing save as.

I tried that but it still just makes one picture

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#9 2009-01-26 09:37:50

archmage
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Re: How do you bring animated GIFs to scratch?

DougV2 wrote:

archmage wrote:

Don't put it into paint. Just download the picture by right clicking and pressing save as.

I tried that but it still just makes one picture

It shouldn't do that. Import any animated gif and it will split apart the costumes.


Hi, I am Archmage coder extraordinaire. I do Scratch,pascal,java,php,html, AS2 and AS3. Leave me a message if you want coding advice. Also check out my personal website, lots of good stuff about web development, Flash, and Scratch (v1 and v2) !

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#10 2009-01-26 16:02:44

Zelda123
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Re: How do you bring animated GIFs to scratch?

archmage wrote:

DougV2 wrote:

archmage wrote:

Don't put it into paint. Just download the picture by right clicking and pressing save as.

I tried that but it still just makes one picture

It shouldn't do that. Import any animated gif and it will split apart the costumes.

It will import as one picture if you use Scratch, click import, and then click on it. To get all of the costumes of the .gif, take it from the folder that you saved it in, and drag it onto the sprite you want it to be on.

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#11 2009-01-27 02:02:12

DougV2
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Registered: 2008-03-22
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Re: How do you bring animated GIFs to scratch?

Zelda123 wrote:

archmage wrote:

DougV2 wrote:


I tried that but it still just makes one picture

It shouldn't do that. Import any animated gif and it will split apart the costumes.

It will import as one picture if you use Scratch, click import, and then click on it. To get all of the costumes of the .gif, take it from the folder that you saved it in, and drag it onto the sprite you want it to be on.

thanks! big_smile

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#12 2009-01-27 06:45:22

bosox397
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Re: How do you bring animated GIFs to scratch?

go here: http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?id=13770 I wrote a whole thread on it, actually.


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