It took me some time, but I finally finished chopping up the art work into a tile-able format for our level editor.  I ran into a few minor problems along the way, but nothing a little game magic can’t fix (and/or hide from your unknown eyes, mwa haha)! 

I have a very busy next few days with my paying job(s), this will slow things a bit for me, unfortunately.  With my previous 4 day holiday over the past weekend, that was suppose to free up some time for me to spend meshing things together, but life always gets in the way! 

A map showing off our little orange friend running around his new environment will be up as soon as I have a demo level ready!

-Zach

So, my main animator is great, he does these really cool animations for moldering in gif format. However, Moldering doesn’t know how to dissect gifs. I guess I could write code in Moldering to do it, however, I wrote a different program instead. This little program will cut gifs into strip animations. it will also cut out any extra space that isn’t necessary, as well as optimize and index the gif.

Using the program is extremely simple. Double click the jar file, select which gif file to cut up, and then select where to output the file. It supports many output formats including gif, png, bmp, and tiff.

I borrowed some code that was open source from the web, so in the same spirit, I provided the source code here. I definitely didn’t want to download all of those “shareware” gif optimizing programs, see which ones actually did what I wanted, and install them on my computer unsure of what I was really getting. This program is small, fast, and clean—no spyware/bloatware or any other kinds of “ware” except pure, clean, and free (as in free beer) software. Enjoy!

-James

DOWNLOADS:

  Program:

    http://projectmoldering.com/downloads/giftostrip.zip

  Source:

    http://projectmoldering.com/downloads/giftostrip/Main.txt

    Note: Source is included in the program zip along with the proper folders.