Question Displaying animated gifs in the forum...

[Invader]

Anyone know how its done? I set up an animated gif of a Tobi run sequence, but the forum does not seem to be animating it. Bah.

 

[_ATMA]

not sure but maybe u messed up saving it? because my animated gif works just fine

it may have been too big for the forums too alot of sites have restrictions on file sizes. try hosting it on an outside source and linking to it instead of uploading it to the site

 

[bax]

*moved to proper forum*

This can happen because of a few reasons, but I'm suspecting this is your case:

The original GIF size is more than 100x100, in this case vB will auto resize it to 100x100, and rendering the GIF to "freeze", because it's not properly saving the frames sequence. You need to resize it manually and properly. See below if you don't know how. Be wary of MH's avatar limit of 100x100px in dimension and 50kB in bytes.

-- If you have Adobe ImageReady, just Image > Image Size, and input the new size, save as GIF

-- Macromedia Fireworks, ACDSee, GIMP, Jasc Animationshop and Paint Shop Pro Animation Shop are able to do just the same. GIMP is obviously the best choice since it's free.

-- You can try this (although very long) tutorial

-- You can try some free online services (I can't guarantee they work though, never used them, but people say they work just fine)
----- http://www.gifworks.com/
----- http://www.online-image-editor.com/
----- http://www.smileygenerator.us/tools/animation_tools/gifresize/lite/index.php
----- http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/gif-resizer-resize-animated-gif-image-files/

 

[Invader]

Thanks - I'll give it a whirl when I get home.