Any one who knows how to create a bootanimation, can you help me out? Please.
I'm no good at this stuff. But I had an idea for a boot animation for the Vegan ROM.
I wanted a bootanimation that had the 3rd evil ex from Scott Pilgrim? You know, Todd Ingram (the Vegan).
I found a couple of animated Gifs and as I understand it we can also use youtube vids. Can anyone make me one?
Thanks in advance
I made this one at Gifsoup. It's not the greatest but that last second where his hair is glowing looks cool or even the part where he's lifting up scott pilgrim.
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Open up a boot animation zip file and look what's in there. Nothing more than a .PNG file for each frame of the movie. The description file shows the frame size of the movie and the frame rate in fps. The folder part0 is for non-repeating animations and the part1 is for the repeating part of the animation.
Here is a good link to help you out.
http://www.androidmobilesupport.com/tutorials/bootanimation
I put the bootanimation.zip into /data/local and reboot!
Worked for me. This is what I made for mine http://goo.gl/xtNBZ
I can upload it if anyone wants to use it. I take no credit for creating the initial .gif but I extracted it to .png
Make sure the desc.txt is made correctly!
Good luck.
I am intrigued by the prospect of making my own files...the informational link in this thread is broken, can someone elaborate on the specifics of the desc.txt file mainly the values before part0 and part1? Also, does the framerate value in the first line mean that it will go through 10 of the files in the part0 folder every second? Lastly, I am assuming that the size of the png files should match the resolution listed in the first line of the desc.txt.
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I have made gifs for a custom boot screen and have been playing around with getting it them to work.
I flash over the previous bootscreen it reboots, my images show but then when they are meant to be animated the image gets scrambled and makes no sense, i did rather cheekily just replace the .gifs from someone elses custom boot screen and signed the zip file.
does anyone know whats going wrong or can anyone point me in the direction of creating the files to go with the gifs so i can get this working.
Cheers
John
They need to be in indexed 255 colors. And they mustn't have any transparent layers. Then they should work just fine.
ahh tristan...you've learnt well... ;D
cheers for the help gents, will try it in the morning.
hmm this is annoying, i have my gif files all built nicely but not using indexed 255 .... does anyone know of a tutorial for converting it without loosing all animations? im searching the net at the moment but no luck
gimp -> image -> mode -> indexed
Will it change a current gif or do i have to make the frames again in gimp?
It works through all the frames.
just used gimp under ubuntu, opened the animations selected image >> mode >> indexed flashed my boot files and they are still not displaying right, beter as you can see part of the animation playing but its far from perfect.
shal i just try creating the images again? or has anyone got any other suggestions?
thanks for everyones help so far though
John
Hello, first post here. I am having the same problems as jonny in creating a custom bootscreen. The first frame of my animation will show before it scrambles. Iam using photoshop. I created my animation in imageready, imported to photoshop, made an indexed 255 color palate and went back to imageready and loaded the palate. I feel like I'm missing something obvious.
BTW, I love this forum. You are all great. I am learning so much. Recently created my own lockscreen, and after I can get the bootscreen down I want to try my hand at the taskbar icons
I swapped to GIMP image editor (which is 100% free) to actualy animate my gifs in indexed 255, i did it in photoshop but it didnt work for some reason even when using indexed 255 colour.
Okay, after much fooling around, I finally got it to work properly . In case anyone cares, here's what I did:
Created the animation in PS (didn't realize you could do animation in PS and didn't need IR) to how I want it to run. Once it looks exactly how you want it, click "Flatten frames into layers". Now delete your original layers so all you have left is the animation frames. Save PSD and open it in GIMP. Go to file, save as, and save as a gif. Click the "save as animation" and "convert to indexed" (that is the key right there) bubbles, and click "export" then save.
Viola! now more problems. I can't figure out how to post it as a gif, but it is the boot process from windows xp.
ok so here is a little trick to getting the new honeycomb boot animation as a live wallpaper.
1.go to market and install this app (LWP creator)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=748566
then put the folder i made on the root of your SD card then select it and bam you'll have the honeycomb boot animation as your live wallpaper.
edit im gonna upload the file as a zip unpack the file and place the folder on you sd then select the folder in the live wallpaper creator app
EDIT2 here is a small sample as to what the outcome will be ("""but know with better resolution !""")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjcA799L_dE
Thank you for help: BLOWNCO, Simms22
Looks cool!
I noticed 64.png is a little off, you might wanna delete that frame. Also, are there higher resolution of the animation available?
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Looks cool!
I noticed 64.png is a little off, you might wanna delete that frame. Also, are there higher resolution of the animation available?
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in that folder I upload, is the maximum resolution
(in animation settings I use a 90 FPS)
Trying to create my own bootanimation based on one of my favorite shows stargate
So far i have all the .png files and have a uncompressed zip file were i have
two folders and desc.txt file
folders are
part0
part1
desct.txt
480 800 30
p 1 0 part0
p 0 0 part1
Issue i am having is
1. that when i try to boot this up the animation plays whats in part0 but gives me a black screen when it gets to part1
2. the opening sequence lags horribly
I have tried everything i can think of to make this work and nothing.
Tried taking a working bootanimation and simply switching out the .pngs and same effect
To my knowledge all the files are the same size
Can a few of you guys take a look and inform a noob whats going wrong here
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IWOYW658
Edit: Seems i posted in the wrong forum .. Can mod move this to Themes and Apps please. However don't let this stop you from commenting and telling me what might be wrong
The reason it goes black at part1 is due to your numbering. Instead of part1 starting with 10060 it starts with 11063. There shouldn't be any gaps in the numbering. As for the performance, you can try a couple of things.
Firstly, try reducing the quality of the images if possible, they are pretty big and I've found that lowering file size improves boot up speed. Secondly, try resizing the images. You can reduce the size but still fill the screen, your desc.txt dictates at what size the animation plays, therefore if you resize to 256x256 (Or whatever you like) it'll still be stretched to fit the whole screen. Quality will be reduced but the speed should increase.
Oh ok Thanks for the info ... I thought that the files only had to be in sequence in the folder there in .. Never realized they had to be a constant sequence
Will report back here once i fix it up
Okay,
I was fiddling around with boot animations on my sensation an made a sweet one that i like from a couple of youtube vids all credit goes to them ie korea android ad and i think a fellow in a design class made the other one (look below i have attached) but when i tried to do the same for my xoom i got stuck in the boot animation where it kept recylcing the boot and never actually booted into the rom... to say the least i had to do a nandroid to get back just from a boot animation which kinda sucks... anyway ill lay out the specifics
1. I used jpgs, same as with my sensation they seem to work just as well as .pngs but keep the zip much much smaller and dont look choppy
2. I use the original boot animation from the tiamat 2.2.2 version as my base zip file which i edited with my pictures
3. I used the actually spec'd dimensions of the xoom of 1280 x 800 for the pictures, however i noticed that the boot from tiamat used 704 x 440 maybe that could be it (i will be trying that now and report back)
4. as my boot time took a while i thought i may try to use 900 images (a bit dumb i know, in my sensation i use 400 and it gets through them nicely, each pic is a pretty quick segment tho) (i will edit the same amount as my sensation and try again)
can anyone shed some light onto why mine may not have worked other than the amount of pics..
here is a youtube link for what i actually made
boot
i tried to just change the resolution to 704 x 440... and i deleted half the images... and tried again... again it kept replaying and never actually booted into the rom so again i am nandroiding lol
You will need to edit your desc.txt file
1408 880 24
p 0 0 part 0
put all your pictures in folder named part0.
Then zip folder using 7zip and make sure you choose store as compression method.
Hope this helps.
i have done that but used done3 as my folder name.. as i said i used the tiamat moray boot animation as my base zip =]
the name of the folder inside the zip shouldn't make a difference especially as i got it to play but it keeps playing and playing a small bit and not the whole file nor booting into the rom...
on all my bootanimations, it helps if you make each image 960 x 600.
then on your desc.txt file, make the screen size 1280 x 800 (the correct size for the xoom).
sometimes if there is an extra pixel hanging off it could cause you to blackscreen or bootloop.
also, sometimes you'll get a bad jpg file, that could also cause the black screen or bootloop.
best suggestion would be to get the desc.txt file from a known working bootanimation and just adjust the frame rate. be sure to hit enter for a new line after you have put in the info for the last part folder.
oh, and a little trick i found. use the bootanimation installer to push the bootanimation, then restart the xoom and be sure to close the bootanimation installer.
leave your xoom connected to your pc. if you do get into a bootloop, wait a few minutes for it to loop then just reopen the bootanimation installer and push a known working bootanimation. after a few seconds the new bootanimation (or default one) should show and should boot normally. this is my procedure.
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on all my bootanimations, it helps if you make each image 960 x 600.
then on your desc.txt file, make the screen size 1280 x 800 (the correct size for the xoom).
sometimes if there is an extra pixel hanging off it could cause you to blackscreen or bootloop.
also, sometimes you'll get a bad jpg file, that could also cause the black screen or bootloop.
best suggestion would be to get the desc.txt file from a known working bootanimation and just adjust the frame rate. be sure to hit enter for a new line after you have put in the info for the last part folder.
oh, and a little trick i found. use the bootanimation installer to push the bootanimation, then restart the xoom and be sure to close the bootanimation installer.
leave your xoom connected to your pc. if you do get into a bootloop, wait a few minutes for it to loop then just reopen the bootanimation installer and push a known working bootanimation. after a few seconds the new bootanimation (or default one) should show and should boot normally. this is my procedure.
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Sweet ill try that.. I tried 3 dimension sizes the true size, and 2 dimensions i got from boot animations with the roms.. I reduced the number of jpgs..
One last thing what setting do u choose for your jpg in photoshop? Or do u jyst use pngs.. I can use setting of 6 medium sized compression for me sensation even tho it works for my phone that may be affecting the xoom
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doesnt really matter the file size. we've made bootanimations with upwards of 7 parts and 200+ mb.
i would say try it first with pngs and if it works then convert to jpgs. i use a file sizing program to make sure of the picture ratio, it gets rid of any of those hanging pixels.
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doesnt really matter the file size. we've made bootanimations with upwards of 7 parts and 200+ mb.
i would say try it first with pngs and if it works then convert to jpgs. i use a file sizing program to make sure of the picture ratio, it gets rid of any of those hanging pixels.
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Well considering i set canvas size with photoshop that constricts pixel dimensions quiet well but ill take ya advice and try that and i might split it up too
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also remember that there is a file number limit per part (folder).
looks good
Success it would seem.. Jpgs are fine.. I think i have found the upper limit of pictures no matter the amount of folders.. The 130 per folder helped.. Will update when i get home from work
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As far as I can tell, it has all the right bits. 24 PNG files numbered in sequence, desc.txt in the right format, and ZIP file is set to "STORE", uncompressed. It's just 24 frames from a "starfield" animation I screen capped from LIghtspeed the screensaver, converted to PNG, rotated 90 degrees so it's portrait, and that's it.
I put the file in the /system/media subdir (renamed original to bootanimationold.zip) but the system didn't boot with it. It did the default "shadows over Android" bootanim instead. (the original bootanim was 6.0 default "dots" animation)
It's probably something simple, but it's 2AM and I can't think. If y'all spot my stupidity first, please enlighten me.
EDIT: I figured it out. I forgot to give it permissions to "others" (read). By default, files copied in only has OWNER and GROUP. I have to give "OTHERS" read permissions. Then it works.