Early build
I checked in with Waterfox on the status of the Pivot Clone he started working on earlier this year. Work is progressing (although slowly), but it’s coming along. You can now animate the default stickmen and play the animation within the app. I played around with the opacity slider, which works beautifully and affects only the figure you currently have selected.
I did ask him, though, about how the use of the opacity slider was going to play out when exporting to animated GIF format – as you may or may not know, GIF images (and animations) are limited to 256 colors, so if a lot of translucent stick figures are used, especially against a sprite (bitmap) background, there may need to be some compromise in the output.
I’ll let you know what I hear…
UPDATE: Waterfox said that he’ll cross that bridge when he comes to it, and is will be looking into formats like video, animated PNG or Flash after his “base” version is done.
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