Alpha blending blah blah blah Desktop X how can you have animation

.bmp's should work fine.
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Make a series of images in one png file. Then you can go into the object properties and tell it how many frames there are. It will divide the image by that many frames, and play them in order giving you an animation.

"rtfm"

simple as that

wow! *scribbles in notes*

Thanx Çërêb®øJÐ!

Make a series of images in one png file

Ok I get the last part but how do you do ↑

How do you make a .png any way? (I know you can use image ready but it tells me that .png dosn't support animation.)

latin4567 - that's correct, PNG doesn't support animation, so put all the animations frames in one image side by side and then tell DesktopX that it's made up of multiple frames and it does the animation magic (see post #2)

I would suggest taking a look at some other themes and see if they have any animations in it. Then you can see how its done.

check out zoomers....

IPlural - just a quick question - Basic Zoomers, is there any point now we have IconX and icons easily created by pointing at an PNG? Imagine all that hard work people have done in the past which is all pointless now...

/me thinks that IconX technology is the best thing since sliced bread for making cool looking desktops very easy.

zoomers don't have to just zoom in and out. look at some of the better ones of the past. they did more than just zoom

Kongit - ahh, true enough, but that's why I refered to "Basic Zoomers"

I don't even understand what zoomers are!
I tried loading one but I couldn't figure out what it did.
But lets stick to the point
so you do 2 images next to eachother, how do you you specify where the boundry between them is, is it just in the middle?

in the dx properties you set the number or frames. split the image horizontally equally in the number of frames you want and put each image in the frames where they go. for example a 200x100 image with 2 frames is 2 100x100 images tiled next to each other. so yes the boundry is right in the middle for a image with 2 frames. with 3 frames the boundries are at 1/3, and 2/3 the width, for 4...should I continues?

Thanks Sir Knogit!

By the way what do you guys think of my Green Nebula stuff
I will turn it into a theme and try to get it by moderation pretty soon...

Knogit

Çërêb®øJÐ

Sput thinks that IconX technology is the best thing since sliced bread for making cool looking desktops very easy.

Latin4567 thinks that sliced bread is overated