Animation Help

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Hi, I'm new to this program but it seems great.  Everything so far has been intuitive in regards to using the program.


The one thing I wanted to do myself was create a animated icon.  I looked around for a readme or something to help a complete newbie, but I found nothing.  Now I know how to use photoshop and imageready, but I'm not sure what the exact specs are for making an animated icon.

I tried using one of the animated icons I found, editing that in photoshop and using my own image...but after I finished and stuck it into objectdock, objectdock blew up. 

So I'd really like to be able to make my own, but I see no instructions anywhere (and I've searched the forum, found some post about animated shortcuts but that didn't help) to help me figure out how to do this.

Is there anyone on this board that's created them and could possibly give me the fundamentals?  What size it needs to be, how in the world do you figure out how to space them apart perfectly, couple of things like that.  Thanks in advance for any help and if I haven't made any sense or you aren't sure what I mean, please ask...I'd really like to figure this out.

wincustomize
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

If you don't receieve a timely response here, you might want to try posting in the OS Customization forum. Anything user created is unfortunately not officially supported.

-Mike
[Stardock Support]

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Start with AndreasV's animated shortcut: https://www.wincustomize.com/ViewSkin.aspx?SID=1&SkinID=2074&LibID=29

put it in your docklet folder. then configure dock or right click and add animated shortcut

right clicking and configuring the docklet will allow you to reset the path, change the png strip to the animation of your choice. I haven't tried using one of my own, but i suspect what ever you create need be about the same size and frames
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