User talk:Socob

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Thank you, and have a good time editing here!   electAbuzzzz 18:33, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Talk Page Comments

Please don't erase talk page comments for no reason. Trust me, you do NOT want to end up like Big Johnno, who got into an edit war with a sysop over comments the former had erased and was trying to keep erased. That user ended up blocked and subsequently had every erased comment restored. --UltimateSephiroth ^{(about me · chat · edits)} 16:51, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

I'm sorry - I wasn't aware that deleting the initial welcome section isn't allowed. No worries, I don't intend to start edit wars or anything similar. I'll make sure to remember this in the future. --Socob 17:00, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

Re: Silver Eevee

Yeah, I know its not. I really love it, but my friends think I'm crazy (I'm a 14 year old girl who draws Eevees in her music book, they have a reason to think I'm crazy)!! Silver Eevee _talk? ^contribs! 03:03, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

You are awesome

Keep up the great work on the Archives. And I think Pikachu flashes yellow a little faster in the DPPt sprites... Anyway, great anipng. TTEchidna 07:33, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Hehe, thanks, I'll do my best. I recorded the animation and calculated the duration based on how many frames it lasted in the video, but obviously, that's not exactly the most accurate procedure. There's no better way of doing it as of now, though, right? -- Socob ^{( Talk | Contribs )} 13:51, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

The way you're doing it serves well enough. TTEchidna 22:11, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Hey

I see you do sprites. So do I. :o Anyway, nice work, but calculating the time for the anipng's isn't really efficient (as opposed to my way). Leave me a message on my talk page so we can talk.Dennis 10:02, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

My way

The way I do it, I don't need to time anything by myself, this is how:

1. Record the animation from an emulator
2. Crop and mirror, then save as .avi in a program called VirtualDub (Mirror because I record it from the status screen)
3. Open that in Photoshop (I use CS4) and make it transparent, then save as animated gif.
4. Open the gif animation in a program called GIF Movie Gear, edit it there and save as animated png.

This way, you don't have to count anything by yourself, the fact you recorded it gives you the correct timing. Dennis 11:02, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

So it's the same approach, just with a little more automatization. I'll definitely try out GIF Movie Gear. -- Socob ^{( Talk | Contribs )} 12:05, 12 September 2009 (UTC)