Gif Question

[Aeroflame]

Hey Newgrounds! Quick question...

So, I want to translate a flash into an animated gif. I basically know how to do everything, but I can't figure out how to make the gif's Background transparent. Thanks for your help.

[Magicalmonkeyguy]

cover the stage with a 0alpha rectangle?

[Aeroflame]

At 10/20/07 06:56 PM, Magicalmonkeyguy wrote: cover the stage with a 0alpha rectangle?

I think that just makes it show the stage BG color, but I could be wrong.

[Aeroflame]

Yeah, that didn't work

[Magicalmonkeyguy]

i figured it out

make an alpha color in the mixer then use the fill tool to put it into the color swatch tab

then go to your arrow tool and set the background to the alpha.

if you did it right the stage turns grey

[Magicalmonkeyguy]

disregard that.

when you play animation it makes your background color whatever you made, and if you try to publish it acts stupid.

i guess there is no way D:

[Aeroflame]

=/

I have Flash MX, if that means anything.

Anyone else have any ideas?

[BlackmarketKraig]

At 10/20/07 07:54 PM, Aeroflame wrote: =/

I have Flash MX, if that means anything.

Anyone else have any ideas?

Everything you need to know (the opaque setting).

Also, make the background color of your Flash the same color as the page you want to put it on, the way Flash anti-alias' you'll get a yucky border if you don't do this.

Good luck.

[Aeroflame]

At 10/20/07 08:22 PM, BlackmarketKraig wrote: Everything you need to know (the opaque setting).

Also, make the background color of your Flash the same color as the page you want to put it on, the way Flash anti-alias' you'll get a yucky border if you don't do this.

Good luck.

I tried that, but it didn't seem to work. I already looked at that, it didn't seem to have anything above what I already knew. But, I don't think I understand what you're saying. I want the background to be transparent so You can see the web page's background behind it, but then why would I set it to the background color?

[Aeroflame]

Any more ideas?

[BlackmarketKraig]

At 10/20/07 10:58 PM, Aeroflame wrote:

At 10/20/07 08:22 PM, BlackmarketKraig wrote: Everything you need to know (the opaque setting).

Also, make the background color of your Flash the same color as the page you want to put it on, the way Flash anti-alias' you'll get a yucky border if you don't do this.

Good luck.

I tried that, but it didn't seem to work. I already looked at that, it didn't seem to have anything above what I already knew. But, I don't think I understand what you're saying. I want the background to be transparent so You can see the web page's background behind it, but then why would I set it to the background color?

Because the background color is anti-aliased into the picture. You know how paint looks all pixely? That's because every pixel holds a color there is no blending. In Flash, you don't work with pixels, you work with vectors and vectors are smooth. When you publish a .gif, it wants to retain that smooth vector look but has to use pixels. Anti-aliasing makes in between colors to retain that smooth look but in pixel form.

Now the transparent .gif you want to publish is going to decide that whatever the background color your Flash is set to is going to be the color that it will blend to with the in between color pixels.

I suck at explaining things, but try a couple of different colors for the background color and you'll see what I'm talking about.