Can we make gifs with rexpaint?
if then ill switch to it.
I prefer to leave the gif work to other programs, one big reason being possible loss of color/quality. Maybe one day I'll add built-in animation support, but that would be a fairly large project to do correctly. As DragonDePlatino says, you can use multiple layers (or perhaps even better: use separate images and scroll through them in the built-in browser, which will essentially look like an animation preview--still, not ideal, I know). I make gifs using REXPaint as well, just not without additional software.
It's nice seeing this tool is still being developed! Recently, I've been using REXPaint to do some level design for a side-scrolling game. I can use Tiled or an art program for that, but REXPaint lets me remove the distraction of graphics to focus on the actual layout:
Nice work! Thanks for sharing. I should put some of this stuff in the gallery. Anything else interesting you'd like to share? Lots of people use REXPaint, but I often have to go out actively searching for gallery content because rarely does anyone come show it to me
Development is not exactly "active," but yeah I definitely maintain a TODO list and will continue updating. A few days ago I thought up a new feature that will allow you to easily tweak the HSV of individual colors directly in the image, which should be pretty useful. That's definitely going into 1.0.
While you're here, DragonDePlatino, just recently a website did a little
article on REXPaint, and used your art to demonstrate
. They didn't contact me for the article so I had no idea they were going to do that. (I of course credit you wherever I use it, thanks for making such a cool dwarf!)
You can work with separate layers in REXPaint. Create a layer for each frame of animation, then export each layer one-by-one. There are lots of online programs that can compile a series of .PNG images into .GIFs.
...but wouldn't it make more sense to compile them into APNGs instead of losing quality to gif?
Hm, never heard of those before. Would be nice if that were a standard, though adoption is unlikely to happen quickly, if ever... Some browsers don't even properly support animated gifs!
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