GIF files on wheels & themes

[juanchocnva]

I dont know if its possible or not but it will be kool 2 have gifs on the wheels

[rondar]

Why gifs instead or pngs?

[shaybe]

I wondered the same thing as well. Then I realized he is probably thinking about Animated wheel images.

[jeepguy81]

If you want animated wheel images, why not enable use of a flash file. much better then gifs in my opinion

[Dazz]

No, .gif support will never be added. HyperSpin is all about quality and the quality of gif is very poor when compared to png. Past testing showed that flv support for wheel images will not be implemented either due to poor performance. Unless Bill has some new tricks up his sleeves or wants to cheapen the look of HS, I do not see either of these being implemented.

[juanchocnva]

some movement in wheels would b kool no metter format

[guyverjay]

what about APNG?

that would rock, we could make even better themes

[Lashek]

Last I checked, APNG is not supported by Flash... and this makes it inherently not supported by HS.

The best way to answer the "Can it do this?" question is to try it in your own flash SWF file without having to do anything with plugins/addins.

APNG is still fairly new (about 2 years old from what I could see), and it's not an official format (meaning it may never be fully supported by everything). From testing, Adobe's tools don't support it without proper plugins, and IE doesn't support it at all... a clear indicator to the answer. :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG

[juanchocnva]

lets hope the future 3d wheels in a future can support gif swf apgn or whatever to look kooler perhaps in the future apng can easily be use in HS


:FUTURE:

[Dazz]

Honestly, I hope that we never have gif support. The quality of gif compression sucks and I think it would just cheapen the look of HyperSpin. I'm not sure why we would even need gif support when swf animation offers more and better quality images.

[jeepguy81]

Honestly, I hope that we never have gif support. The quality of gif compression sucks and I think it would just cheapen the look of HyperSpin. I'm not sure why we would even need gif support when swf animation offers more and better quality images.
agree

[jackhammersalm]

animated wheels will be nice but honestly very unnecessary. as for gif support being a novice I don't see the point in using something that would more than likely ruin the whole system as for animated wheels I think it would purely slow hyperspin down further (unless you're sporting a top of the line Chip and Mboard with loads of memory and one killer GFX card and maybe a ssd drive)

[juanchocnva]

ur right it will slow HS down, but all were saying is 4 HS to support it is up to us if we wanted .. gif files where just an example swf would work better we dont need a lot of movement on wheels just slightly reflection to make them look better something like that...

but thanks 4 ur opinion

[jackhammersalm]

but there are better ways of doing it other than gif files and with the talent on here you'd be surprised what you can

[dark]

animated wheels will be nice but honestly very unnecessary. as for gif support being a novice I don't see the point in using something that would more than likely ruin the whole system as for animated wheels I think it would purely slow hyperspin down further (unless you're sporting a top of the line Chip and Mboard with loads of memory and one killer GFX card and maybe a ssd drive)

I'm with this guy on this, I run a fairly nice machine for my arcade and I still run Hyperspin without transitions just to keep it running smooth for long periods of time (full speed wheel spinning) and adding animations to wheels would just make things so much busier....isn't hyperspin flashy enough for ya? its only the flashiest front end out there.

I just picture someones wheel full of obnoxious little animations making the scheme as a whole look far too busy.

[8BitMonk]

all were saying is 4 HS to support it is up to us if we wanted

I thought it was up to the developers if they want it or not? :)


I just picture someones wheel full of obnoxious little animations making the scheme as a whole look far too busy.

I agree. Remember the blink tag when the web was in it's infancy? Sometimes less is more, just because you can doesn't mean you should. There's already so much going on onscreen this type of visual is probably overkill, not to mention slowing down the wheel.

The only usage I could possibly see is in the case of a reflection, sparkle, circling atoms, arcs of energy or a canned animation affect that would only apply to a single wheel image when you stop on it like the themes do. Even then, if it couldn't be added without a speed hit I'd nix it. I'm not convinced a reflection on my wheel images constitutes 'cooler'.

[jeepguy81]

OH GOD, the blink tab, ugh. Whats scary is i'm still removing that tag out of websites i work on to this day.