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#61
Quote from: selmiak on Mon 21/01/2013 01:29:23
I have an animated gif and use save for web in photoshop but somehow the used frames don't disappear and are shown under the new frames. There is transparency in the gif and so you can see the old frames. When I save it with background it works fine. In photoshop only one layer is shown per frame and there are no settings left to check... how can I make the gif refresh the canvas?
I haven't tried this, but I think you're suppose to add an alpha channel into each frame then save as gif, that way Photoshop overwrites everything for each frame.

On a more practical level, you might not have checked the box for Transparency (in the Save for web and devices panel). I've just tried with and without this checked and when I try without, the animation leaves a certain trail. Also you have to choose No transparency dither in the dropdown menu right below the the Transparency check box just to make sure (gifs don't have transparency blending, it's either 100% or 0%).
Also uncheck the Interlaced option just to be sure.

I found for GIMP there's two solutions depending on the version:
- by choosing from "Frame disposal where unspecified" option "One frame per layer (replace)"
- For the current version (2.8.0), in the name for each frame layer, include (replace). For example: 
Code: AGS
frame 1(250ms)(replace)
#62
I'm not quite sure, I don't have dual monitor set up and also have about 10cm to draw anyway. There is a setting there for choosing the monitors, so I'm guessing you can choose just 1 to work with a tablet. Many people who design and draw use 2 monitors, so it should be made for such things.
#63
Quote from: cat on Tue 08/01/2013 12:17:32
I have a Wacom tablet that I currently use with a 4:3 monitor. However, I would like to have a larger monitor or two smaller ones but then it won't fit the resolution of the tablet anymore. When I use a second monitor it works fine, but I can only use a small area of the tablet because the desktop is directly mapped on it. Not sure if anyone understands what I want to say? To cut a long story short: How can I use a widescreen monitor or even a dual monitor setup while still using the full area of my tablet?
Is this a 4:3 tablet? Because there is an option in the the tablet settings to turn a 16:10 area (which the tablet has) into a 4:3 by basically making a part (on the side) of the tablet surface unresponsive (it reduces the area that's active so it fits with 4:3 resolution). You can change the area of the monitor and the tablet. I'm not sure if 4:3 tablets can turn into 16:10 though, but you can change all kinds of things.

I have a Bamboo and the option to change this is in Control Panel under "Bamboo Preferences", so check there. Then you go on Pen and there should be a button Mapping, set it from there. There might be a way to set up things automatically, but I had to go there and change the tablet area (reduce the height) and then I checked by drawing a circle in Paint, it's best to use something like a cd hole to make sure that you're drawing a circle). You lose a milimeter or two in the height but at at least it stops you from thinking you're crazy (for a month of so I was just puzzled why I couldn't copy drawings from paper properly. :-D

Again, I'm not quite sure what you're asking here, so I hope that helps.
#64
Quote from: Grundislav on Mon 31/12/2012 04:08:08Here, we present a snippet of a conversation that was specially recorded and never found a place in a podcast because we never got around to recording one afterwards.  Think of it as a 15 minute special.

Grundislav Goes to a Midnight Release
So what I gather from this is that this is a Midnight Special. *parum-pum*
#65
Quote from: ThreeOhFour on Tue 04/12/2012 08:30:25
There are three men - Grandfather, father and son. The father is both a father to the son and a son to the grandfather.
Is it Bob Wilson or the Bartender?
#66
*rant*I hated my math teachers (the one in grammar school was basically eyeing the girls and the one in college would make it all seem clear in class but when you got home it dawns on you that you don't understand anything) and my music teachers - the one in elementary school was drunk 90% of the class and the one in grammar school was teaching advanced stuff along with dictating every detail of a composers lives which was mostly irrelevant to music). It was mostly me being uninterested in math and music theory, but they're the ones that kept it uninteresting. :grin:
*/rant*

So anyway, I suck at math, but wouldn't you need a cosinus curve y=cos2x (that way it has the value of y=0 when x=pi/2). Now to get all the values positive, you cut y in half y=0.5cos2x (you make the amplitude half so it goes from +0.5 to -0.5)  and then add 0.5 to make it all postive so y=(0.5 cos 2x) + 0.5

That'll make it so when x=pi/2 y=0, but we need x=1 and y=0 so maybe we multiply x with 2/pi so in the end it should be y=(0.5 * cos(4/pi*x)) + 0.5
I'm sure somebody is better at math than moi, but it does feel good to get the brain working a bit.
#67
If it's only been a year, then go let the warranty techs take care of it. Quickest way I think, just get it to work once and copy essential stuff to usb or a mobile hdd (documents, maybe saved passwords etc.).

Even if it's something hardware related they'll probably have to test it when you bring it there and you'll just lose time diagnosing it.
#68
Quote from: m0ds on Fri 12/10/2012 14:20:27
If someone has a moment to check, can sound recorder in Vista/Win 7 be made to record at a sample rate higher than 96kbps and to formats other than .WAV ? I have XP & the old version, so I'm not sure, but am trying to find out on someones behalf. Many thanks :)
In W7 it's .wma 96kbps. It basically has 1 button to operate.
#69
A weird question that kind of bugs me and I don't even know how I'd look up such a thing:
is there like an unnamed class of people that co-write books with authors, and by books I mean stuff like fantasy or sf book series (stuff like Song of fire and ice, Stephen Kinds works etc.)? I'm not trying to say those people are hacks or anything it's just that the size of the books just seems like too much for 1 person, to write 600 pages in 6 or such months. And plus there's a lot of editing to be done (not only does it have to be edited but read a few times as well and I doubt you can speed read through books and edit them at the same time) on top of that, I'm sure books get rewritten in this process more than a few times, plus printing and distribution, all that takes time and it just seem weird to me people can write that fast and make it coherent.
There are ghost writers that help write biographies, but that's for people who are not writers themselves, and I know there are writer's assistants who help with continuity and such, but still I think it's not far fetched to think there are people who co-write.
#70
Quote from: Snarky on Wed 05/09/2012 11:03:12Not having watched the full tutorial yet, I take it there's a relatively straightforward way to create a looping animation using this technique? Googling the question didn't bring up any definite "Yes, here's how you do it and it works fine" answers.
...well if it's like an island in the sea, then you just make a simulation of say 30 seconds, copy it and reverse it back to front (in reverse) - those 2 parts combined make a 1 minute loop. :grin:
#71
Quote from: Snarky on Sun 02/09/2012 16:11:17
You can see the sort of waves I'm looking for here. There will be various objects casting light, which is why I want reflections. The cartoony part is less essential, and I can experiment with shaders and filters to get the effect I need.
OK, that's not that bad, what you need to look for is animated bump textures or just regular animated textures, because that's basically a plane. The "reflectiveness" comes from the glossiness of the surface. This should be something you'd need: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6e7vn69Vr4
You can even put a boat on it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q23WFVrQ7GI
#72
Quote from: Snarky on Sun 02/09/2012 14:20:30
I'm looking for a tool to create a high-quality, cartoony looping wave animation with 3D reflections. The ones I've found are only able to do ripples; I want proper, choppy ocean waves. I'm assuming I'll need some kind of 3D app, but some guidance (w/ examples, if possible) would be appreciated.
It'd be nice if you could give an example of something similar to what you want. You want a beach scene, or like a boat on the waves and realistic textures or cartoony ones?
Try looking through this http://www.cogfilms.com/tutorials/Blender-Seascape-Tutorial.pdf although by your description this is again not what you want. In Blender the thing should be called "Blender Ocean Sim" so find tutorials on that, otherwise it's the Fluid Simulator (but this will take some getting used to). I haven't actually been that much into Blender, so I'm not that familiar with it.

Other than those kind of waves, you'd probably have to go for a simulator of some sort (Cinema4d might have them, Houdini, or look within UDK (Unreal Development Kit), it might have a good renderer for waves and a tutorial). When you get the waves, then get the "cartoony" look with a shader. Most work is otherwise is done with texture animation, so no so much waves, but those ripples you mentioned.
#73
Cheers for the link.

Here's the page with torrent: http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2012/08/31/Free-art-e-book-Vertex-released-by-Ryan-Hawkins.aspx
Although the download (EU primary) seems to be ok.
#74
General Discussion / Re: Free Steam keys!
Mon 20/08/2012 14:22:39
Quote from: Ascovel on Mon 20/08/2012 13:57:33
I have a 75% off coupon for buying Portal 2 that will work for the rest of August. Anyone interested?
I have one as well. If somebody wants it, PM me, not for resale use.
#75
Quote from: ThreeOhFour on Mon 13/08/2012 15:25:16
So that'll be 2 British pounds thanks Chicken and they better be great! :D
Damn, you entice with free samples, then start to charge? Like a cheetah on Serengeti...or something. For shame.  :-D

Quote from: Ryan Timothy on Mon 13/08/2012 19:34:07
Hey, when you guys were talking about Assassins Creed 3, you had the music playing from Psychonauts, right? From that creepy guy's brain who believed everything was a conspiracy with all the agents wandering about stopping you.

Enjoyable podcast.
You mean this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I0_QTO-kwE ?
#76
Quote from: Nikolas on Sun 05/08/2012 11:51:28
first of all thanks for the previous replies about video software.

Another question, which perhaps one can reply...

Is anyone experienced with kindle and the format(s) it's using? Anyone knows a lot (or enough) about EPUB or AZW or KF8 or MOBI?

If so let me know and we can take this privately (this is for a commercial project, so I can't say anything else in public, sorry)...
Well azw is amazon cloud format, so that would be it, mobi and epub do quite well as far as I've seen, thing is you'd want something that transfers well to other formats, but Kindle basically reads everything, just check the meta data type stuff like menus and page numbers etc. stay well ordered. As long as you have a pdf and maybe one other format, people can transfer it I think.
Cradle is my software for organizing and uploading books to Kindle, it can also transfer between almost all formats, try some things and you'll see the differences between
http://www.freewaregenius.com/the-big-list-of-free-kindle-tools/

And that's about all I can say about that.
#77
Yay!

Quote from: Ponch on Fri 20/07/2012 03:54:46* Ben tells me that Down Under they're called Rice Bubbles. Damn, Australia is a strange place.
Said the lactating 4 nippled human male.  :tongue:
#79
Damn it Ben, it was 6:43AM here when you posted, I only went to sleep like 3h before that.
I listened to it through lunch, it's funny how you guys keep giggling like little girls still.  :grin:
#80
The Rumpus Room / Re: *Guess the Movie Title*
Wed 04/07/2012 20:56:03
It does look like San Francisco, so Dirty Harry perhaps?
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