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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Sony X10a running FreeX10-beta4
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....
Hello, excuse me if I post this in the wrong section I am new to this forum.
I would like to know some things about the advanced modifying of GoLauncher themes, or basically android themes in general.
Is there any way to edit the dock on the home screen of a theme to place it somewhere else on the screen and have the ability to make it slide out or pop up from somewhere? I know how to do the graphical side of this but I need a little push in the right way for the programming bit. I do know how to decompile, compile and sign apk files.
Thanks in advance,
Qab
(Might as well ask it here since I did not recieve any reply in the theme section).
I have created some colored themes for Empty Galaxy ROM. You can see them here.
The main problem I have is when I try to change the color of the pop-up/toast notifications. Although I am only changing the colors of the png files, the end result is completely wrong. See here.
This page explains how to do what I want by editing/creating a xml file...but I just don't understand it, or where to even find and place the xml file. I know just enough to be dangerous
If anyone can help explain this to me, it'd be much appreciated.
Thanks,