Hey folks.
I've done some searching, and come across a couple tools, and a couple posts, but nothing really concrete.
I found a kick-butt boot animation in the Android Theming Forum, and thought that it'd be cool to port it over to us X10 users (because I loves my X10, and this boot animation). So I went, and I used the other one as a base, making my own PNG's, then borrowed his ASCII Android robot PNG's to do the repeating second half of the animation.
However, once I go through everything, make the ZIP (as a non-compressed file), and upload it... I get just the blank screen of nothingness.
I'm hoping someone can help me fix this, so that I can have this awesome animation (and share it with everyone else).
Attached <was> the animation (renamed to differentiate it from my other ones) in case someone wants to help.
Thanks again in advance.
EDIT:
I figured out what my problem was. There was a blank space at the end of the first line of my DESC.TXT - so it went <width>(SPACE)<height>(SPACE)<fps>(SPACE)
This is BAD. You do NOT want any spare whitespeace in your desc.txt file. Any whatsoever. Single space, not double, and no extras at the end.
Thanks again to everyone else who started threads on this, who were able to help me figure it out.
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First of all, I know this information has got to be here somewhere within the confines of XDA-Developers, however, I am at a loss. Therefore, I pre-apologize if this is redundant.
One of the first roms that I tried for my TG01 had an animated splash screen with sound! I would really like to put an animation both on the boot and the normal splash screen before windows mobile starts. Would someone be able to point me in the correct direction?
Thank you very much my friends.
-Kilihari.
Kilihari said:
First of all, I know this information has got to be here somewhere within the confines of XDA-Developers, however, I am at a loss. Therefore, I pre-apologize if this is redundant.
One of the first roms that I tried for my TG01 had an animated splash screen with sound! I would really like to put an animation both on the boot and the normal splash screen before windows mobile starts. Would someone be able to point me in the correct direction?
Thank you very much my friends.
-Kilihari.
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Contact Nokser, his ROMs only have animated boot up...
Just search for "animated splash wvga", or look HERE to start with.
If you use a rom with an animated spash just copy over the existing animation with a new one.
If not use Advanced Config to choose the file location.
Hope thats what you were looking for
I think the TG01 is differnet.
I have tried everything like that, I absolutely can not get the animated splash screen to work. Hmm... Nokser must have done his homework cuz I think that is a tough thing to get working on the TG01.
I will message him, see if I can find the secret!
-Kilihari
I am sorry if this is a noobish question or there is an easy answer, but I was looking at customizing my phone a bit and I saw the part about making your own splash screens (which is awesome), but I was wondering how to make custom boot animations - what tools I would need, type of files, etc. I thought there would have been a thread somewhere in the Themes & Apps section but I could not find it, and doing Google search leads me to just people posting their own custom animations.
Is there a thread someone can direct me to that has this sort of information? Any help would be appreciated - thanks!
Bump - does anybody know? Also, the boot noise for the BAMF Sense 3.0 RC3 does not work, another reason why I want a new one, ha.
Have you opened one of the bootanimation.zips? What file types are in there?
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A PNG image and a series of JPG images that make the animation, but I was wondering if there was a program that took an animation to make it into a series of JPGs, or if there were certain requirements/specifics in terms of how to make a boot animation.
+1 on this whole post, I attemted last night to make my first animation, and if it is just the tedious task of re-saving the same picture over and over again with just minor changes on each one to create the animation, than ok, so be it.
It just seems that with some of the very cool animations there are, for example the boot animation to the new BAMF 3.0 has moving clouds in the background, that seems like it would be pretty hard to do manually moving the clouds a little bit for each frame.
It would seem pretty obvious to anyone that extracted the bootanimation.zip how the animation works, just more speaking on the creation of each of those frames.
Would be nice if someone with experience with this chimed on and offered some help.
Thank's in advance.
Does seem pretty tedious manually moving and saving them as you said but I'm guessing that's what they do.
Probably wouldn't take that long if you had everything on layers in photoshop and you could just move layers themselves.
Alternatively, if you already have a video, I'm sure there's a way to convert that to a series of png's as well.
Ok I'm on the phone so giving a tutorial is out of the question. All you really need is patience and a goal.
First download Gimp for editing. Forget PhotoShop all together unless your rich.
Download the following scripts or plugins.
Background overlay
Save all layers
GAP (video editor for Gimp)
Google the hell out of what you want. Chances are someone allready has done what you want.
Read, read, read (time to not be lazy, what ever your doing you can find some direction at least with some good internet research)
Google "editing Android boot animations".
Create images (JPG or PNG) in the same aspect ratio of 480x800.
JPG images will be significantly smaller in file size
PNG images will have a much better quality
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Use GAP to convert an existing video to images frame for frame.
Very useful if you find a good video.
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I actually do have Photoshop, do you know how I can use that instead of Gimp/GAP? Also, I am sort of confused at how you take an existing video and turn it into something you can use as a boot animation... I found this link (http://www.machackpc.com/how-to-changecreate-your-boot-animation-for-droid/) but I am sort of confused by it and wish I could find someplace with simpler instructions.
I just use others. I used the Call of Android animation and the mw2 style on my incredible, and I just edited the files to use the same ones on my thunderbolt.
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Ok, did a little research last night and today and tried a bunch of different programs for converting animations to a series of .png files and finally settled on one. I tried some free one's some trials and this is probably the best one I found so far.
Xilisoft Ultimate video converter. I was able to load an .avi, (or many other supported formats.) Program made it very easy using the "clip" feature to select out a section of the video I wanted, then converted that "clip" to a series of .png files. I was able to easily select the length of times between the extracted images "less time will obviously give you a smoother animation but require more pictures", also I could manually input the size of the outputted files (to match our phone's resolution).
I have only played with it a little bit but so far seems to be pretty good.
Also I have one other program I have been playing with to help with this. Jasc animation studio, which works with paint shop pro, has a pretty cool feature, which lets you copy into the clipboard all of your extracted image .png's, then "paste" them into animation studio as a new animation, you can then watch them from there, or load any indivual frame into paint shop pro. You can also save the clips as an animated gif. Very easy to make changes to individual frames and see the result's without having to flash to your phone.
Hope this helps.
Wow! Awesome, thanks, this is perfect and in great detail - what about sound? If the video has sound, will I try hope it gets synced with the series of .png images? And what else would I need for the bootanimation.zip folder? Will I need a .txt like when I change the splash screens?
OKay just saw the cursom boot animation request thread but I thought I would offer a place that people that have made personal animations to just link for others....I only have one I might make more but just wanted to share it....it is Transformers 3 intro into Sentinals Eye but it ends Saying Transformer Prime....the "S" (from Transformers) shatters and "Prime" fades in....
It is a bit glitchy but I am not sure how to fix it...in my editor it looks fine.
FIXED LINKS
Screens
Start: http://bit.ly/w4S1te
http://bit.ly/yAc3zH
http://bit.ly/wVYHMA
http://bit.ly/ymccrq
http://bit.ly/wUPLO7
Ending: http://bit.ly/ADcvLN
Zip:
http://bit.ly/yVreoI
PS: First of all I am not an expert in any way, I just wanted my boot animation like this...the settings in desc could probably be optimized more and also the boot time I think take a bit longer due the length of the clip and the resources needed....feel free to edit as much as you would like
AND PLEASE POST ANY BOOT ANIMATIONS YOU WANT TO SHARE
Your links are broken. Except for the last one.
Thanks for that...fixed now
If anyone is looking for something custom feel free to hit me up, I am more then willing to help out. Let me know what you are looking and we can hash it out. I have been building boot animations for the primalicious rom.
-Lostsorrow
How do you setup a custom boot animation, been wondering this for while....
Hi there! I am developing a ROM for the Virgin Mobile Alcatel (PCD) Venture, which is listed as having a 240x320 resolution. I have a perfectly working custom boot animation in 240x320, but i cant for the life of me figure out why i cant get a working custom splash screen! ive done sooooo much research, but havent came across any method that has worked yet on the Venture. no matter what i do, the boot splash comes out distorted/scrambled. ive been chatting with a senior member of another popular android development site, and they referred me to here, so im keeping my fingers crossed that SOMEONE out there can help me! The Venture runs Android 2.3.5 (Gingerbread) on kernel 2.6.35.7-perf.
the method i am using is decompiling the boot.img file from my rom via dsixda's kitchen (ubuntu), and replacing the initlogo.rle file with my custom splash file of the same name, and then rebuilding the boot.img. i created the custom splash (240x320) in photoshop cs3, and saved it as a 24 bit png file with transparency enabled. then i converted the png to rle using to565 tool in ubuntu. flashed the rom, still distorted. ive also tried other methods of creating the image, including:
1. [win xp] saving the image in photoshop directly as an rle file
2. [win xp] saving the image in photoshop as a regular png (aslo tried regular bmp), loading in MS Paint, saving as 24bit bmp, and converting to rle using to565 in ubuntu
3. [win xp] saving the image in photoshop for web/devices (24bit PNG), and converting to rle using to565 in ubuntu
4. [ubuntu] loading psd (photoshop save file created in win xp) into GIMP, saving as png, and converting to rle using the following code:
convert -depth 8 initlogo.png rgb:initlogo.raw
./to565 -rle <initlogo.raw> initlogo.rle
sudo chmod 777 initlogo.rle
all methods resulted in the same distorted splash when i tried flashing the rom. im sure that ive tried other methods too, but i just wanted to give you an idea of what kind of methods im using. also, i tried resizing the image down to half the size (240x320รท2=120x160). resulted in the same issue.
i used a tool to convert the stock rle to png so i could check it out, but when it converted the rle, it came out with 2 different png files. one was just a black background, and the other was a black background with the red "Hello" writing, but it looked all distorted in the same way that the custom rle comes out looking on the phone. also, the 2 images had different properties. the black background one was a grayscale, and the other was indexed. interesting. also, does the dpi come into play here at all? ive heard that 72 will pretty much work universally (i dont kno if thats correct or not). the Venture natively runs a lcd density of 120. from all the information that i have dug up, this seems like an uncommonly low dpi on android phones. do i need to compensate for this in any way?
also, an interesting fact, when trying to use ANY screenshot app on the venture (at least, any of the screen apps that i have come across), the output image always comes out scrambled in the same way that it scrambles my custom splash.
any help here would be very appreciated, as i have been stuck on this for almost a week and a half now, and its really holding up the development of my rom. i MUST get this working though! thank you so much for reading!
still stumped. ideas anyone?
so, i believe i found info that hinted that the dpi of the splash isnt important. is this correct?
any ideas? im really anxious to get some input from anyone!
so i calculated that the ventures screen is 2.8", and with the resolution of 240x320, the dpi comes out to 142.857, but they set the stock density to 120. could this have anything to do with the distortion?
still been diligently working on this. anyone reading have ANY ideas of anything i could try?
ok, so even tho the venture is 240x320 (240w, 320h), i tried resizing the image to 320x240. the splash is looking closer to what its supposed to, but definately still distorted/scrambled. thoughts?
are there any known kernel bugs or anything that could cause this? is it a lost cause?
so after countless hours and a couple months of frustration, i finally got this sucker figured out. the res of the venture is advertised. i picked apart the OS and found some coding here and there that looked a little off to me (granted, im still learning a few things about the intricacies of the android/linux filesystem, but ive got my head wrapped around it pretty darn good ). i believe the framebuffer used on the venture has some serious bugs (maybe just a drag & drop FB from another similar chipset to save $ on programming?? i mean, the phone WAS only 29.99 new...). anyway, i ended up figuring out a workaround. it basically just comes down to an incorrect resolution issue, causing it to severely distort the image. so, in photoshop, i ended up having to create my image as 235wx320h instead of the advertised res of 240Wx320H (to center image due to a spacing issue that comes up on the splash). then, after finishing my 235x320 image, i went to Image -> Canvas Size. i had to resize the canvas to exactly 256Wx320H with the background set to black (to match the BG of my image). i also set the anchor to the top left. then i went File -> Save for Web and Devices, and saved with the PNG-24 preset with transparency enabled. i then modified a custom utility to convert to RGB565 and convert to rle.
i just thought i would share that here so anyone who might have a similar problem could benifit from my findings! i linked to my original Phandroid thread below which has a download link to my modified tool and step-by-step, easy-to-follow instructions. any questions, feel free to contact me! thanks!
http://www.androidforums.com/venture-all-things-root/669111-custom-boot-splash-how-change-vms-hello-screen.html
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Apologies if this isn't the right place to post this, I'm new here.
So I recently downloaded a new theme, and while I'm not keen on the UI itself, I'm a massive fan of the lockscreen. I'd assumed it was just a gif, but I went into the APK for the wallpaper and it turns out it's a load of .qmg's and an xml to control the animation.
I have neither the tools nor expertise to do anything at all with these files, and I'm hoping someone would be able to help.
I'd post a link to the APK, but I don't have the privileges to do so. You might have to pm me for it.
TL;DR: I need to make a looping animation to keep as a wallpaper from a set of qmg's and an xml and I'm too bone-idle to do it myself.