How are animated GIF's made?

[BNG Da BZ Fool]

I can export out of TS as an AVI animation file, but is there a program to convert AVI's to animated Gif's? Tanks BNG.

[Warfreak]

No, an animated GIF MUST be made by having a picture per frame and getting an animated image maker and making it compile all the images into the animated format. (Which all it is is a container of the images which knows when to pull up which image).

[TheJamsh]

pah, use .APNG (animated PNG file) wherever possible. Dont loose the quality the way .GIF's do

[mrtwosheds]

Neither will work in bz2. 

[Warfreak]

Considering his personal text and the fact this in the OT, i think he wants it for his pic.

[TheJamsh]

Neither will work in bz2. 

I know, but we can dream ... imagine... animated skies... moving textures... shader-like water.. ooo the prettyness. I think BBB has gotten close to animated textures with the caustics ones he made.

[S.cavA.rmyG.en]

I know, but we can dream ... imagine... animated skies... moving textures... shader-like water.. ooo the prettyness. I think BBB has gotten close to animated textures with the caustics ones he made.

I wonder why it has not ben done with all the crome  form the scions.
I mean all some one needs is the right effect to animate the texture with.
but I don't know enoth of the coding so don't take my word on it.
wate now I got somthing to test GIF
I think the models could be recoded to use a form of GIF as a list of orderd PIC textures.
you could all ways use a 6 layer Model animation having each Mesh whith a diffent texture
but it mite be hard to get the ODF just right.
3 meshs for antmating the Model and 3 run in loop acttivated as a sub animation with the fist 3.
I think It could work but I am not completly surr.
I think 3 would work for a unaintmated model like the ISDF tank.

[BNG Da BZ Fool]

This is neat Bink (believe it not) can convert an AVI to GIF, but without animation. It generated several still images, but how can I get them to play like an animated GIF? Does anyone care to reveal how I can compile all of them into a single animated GIF? Tanks BNG.

[mrtwosheds]

I use imageready, which is a part of photoshop6.

[AHadley]

Load them into seperate layers in GIMP, mark each layer as a frame, and save as an animated GIF.

[BNG Da BZ Fool]

Awesome, thanks AH. Not only would I like an animated avatar, but I'd also like to build a collection of gifs for all of my models too.

[technoid]

I've used Microsoft GIF Animator several times in the past.  It's abandonware, but works like a charm and is free.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_GIF_Animator

Be sure to also optimize your animation for quality and filesize tweaking. I think I used GIMP for that. 

And don't use something like this for your avatar especially when I'm on dialup (well unless I turn off images in the browser).   There was another animated gif like that but it was more like 20MB, not 7MB.