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[Android Themes] ZaLiTHkA:
No, I was getting it on my WinXP Pro x86 with SP3 and on Win7 x64 (no service pack). The error I posted was from my XP machine though.

I've actually got my personal machine (Win7) with me today at work, so if it helps I can start it up and get the message from that machine? I'm not sure if they are the exact same error or not, but I suspect so..
[Android Themes] despotovski01:
Well, I must see what you're doing, so I can see if you're doing something wrong. I don't get any errors on my computer. Can you post a video, please?
[Android Themes] ZaLiTHkA:
This is really weird, I just started up my Win7 machine to test the creator again, and now it's working... It's also working fine again on my WinXP machine for some reason. I haven't changed anything though, so I have no idea why it's behaving itself again.

Previously it was creating the animation ZIP file without a problem (and it worked on my Desire) but it gave an error when I tried to preview it after creating it. Now everything goes along just fine... :confused: I'll keep an eye on it and I'll try catch the error if it happens again, but for now it all seems to be fine again.
[Android Themes] despotovski01:
I'm glad to hear that. :)
[Android Themes] kaassaus:
tnx for this your safe my day with this XD.

i was trying to make a bootanimation but it not booted.

and with this in one time it boots perfect.

TNX

Man.
[Android Themes] despotovski01:
Announcement

Greetings people! I'm announcing the next update of Boot Animation Creator, which will be released some time after the Boot Animation Previewer 2.0 update. What you should expect:

-No folder limitations! :D

-Auto-detect image size (though you will still be able to enter it manually)

-No need for Administrator privileges (although the updaters will still need)

-...

If you have a feature request, feel free to drop a comment with it. :)
[Android Themes] findpranav:
Thanks a lot really very easy and helpful :)
[Android Themes] daddyspud:
hi im tryin to use this software but when i enter the details for width and height etc and click next

it pop up with

please set all the properties

im on win7 reinstalled twice but still no look
[Android Themes] despotovski01:
Did you select the folder in which your frames are, or the folder in which the 'part' folders are?
[Android Themes] masully1984:
Went to download this to my computer and Norton deleted it and said it was a medium risk. I'm not implying anything just merely stating what my antivirus did.
[Android Themes] bigt305:
Its not unusual for anti virus programs to detect VB programs as malware. Its a false positive. I believe it has to do with the file signature. Rest assured, this download is clean.

Sent from my thing using another thing.
[Android Themes] duhhh:
hi

can some one help me with this animation,it bug on 2 part :confused:

thanks in advance :)
[Android Themes] ZaLiTHkA:
Hmmm... Strange, worked fine in the Boot Animation Previewer, but on my Desire it's almost like it got stuck in a loop around 70 or 71 in the second loop.

I've converted the images from PNG to JPG and saved "For Web and Devices" using PhotoShop, which seems to have fixed it and made it quite a lot smaller (see attached file). Perhaps one of the files didn't save properly?
[Android Themes] duhhh:
I don't save them in "For Web and Devices" maybe this is the problem

now it's ok thanks for your help :)
[Android Themes] ZaLiTHkA:
No problem, it doesn't really make much difference... But because it doesn't save all the EXIF information (author pc name, program, camera model, etc) the files tend to be slightly smaller, which only helps them load faster.

If you don't have PhotoShop and you need that done to some files, send me a message, I don't mind helping out.
[Android Themes] duhhh:
I using PS thanks for your help :)
[Android Themes] thyultimate:
Been looking out for something like this, will try it out, thanks for the effort you put in :-)
[Android Themes] despotovski01:
You're welcome! And thanks for using my program! :)
[Android Themes] ramtix:
this is an awesome program dude..you rock

one thing though..on the program that I just used, I was only getting 1 option for the number of folders on Step 2.." First Folder Number of Loops ____" thats it.

Is that right?
[Android Themes] despotovski01:
Well, if you have only one 'part' folder, then it's right. Remember, you have to select the folder in which your 'part' folders are. :)
[Android Themes] ramtix:
ah ok..thanks man..im playing with it right now and I luvin it :D
[Android Themes] xTremePower:
hello,

I am the only who have the error : Please Set all of properties! error ?

I fill All the 4 properties, I have only one folder
[Android Themes] ZaLiTHkA:
What are you setting the properties to? Keep in mind the 'Frame width', 'Frame height', Speed(FPS)' and each folder part properties only accept numbers for the values.
[Android Themes] johnblundon:
Are these ZIP files flashable?? I tried one and it aborted the install.
[Android Themes] despotovski01:
I think not. You can install a boot animation with root explorer, or with adb.
[Android Themes] ZaLiTHkA:
No need to flash it, just place the bootanimation.zip file in /data/local/. If your ROM supports it (all GingerBread ROMs should), then when next you reboot your device it will extract the images and play it as the boot animation. :)
[Android Themes] exebreez:
Thanks this helped me a lot. :P
[Android Themes] despotovski01:
You're welcome! Thanks for using my program. :)
[Android Themes] mamas_n:
white image

I seem to have a problem, I've all my image setup correctly as .png with 8bit depth color and named 00001 and go on. I've used your program and created the animation which I successfully installed. However I get white screen then a part of my animation in part0 folder and then again a white screen. I've read all kinds of posts but couldn't find the problem. I've also checked for Thumbs.db but nothing. Can you help me? My phone is xperia x8 with 320x480 screen. I've attached the boot animation if you have time please check it. Thanks in advance.
[Android Themes] despotovski01:
I'll check what the problem is when I get back home. :)
[Android Themes] mamas_n:
ok thank you for your time
[Android Themes] despotovski01:
I've found out what the problem is: the images that are not displayed are drawn in index colors. They should be in RGB 8bit or RGB 16bit.
[Android Themes] mamas_n:
so i need to save again the pictures in rgb 8bit. I use paint.net and I can't find a setting for rgb 8bit. Is there any other program that can do that for me?

EDIT: i' ve changed it with photoshop, the boot animation is perfect thanks for your help!!
[Android Themes] Bhocan:
Nice share

Nice share bro, with this application I can create your own bootanimation, sorry for the language :confused:
[Android Themes] despotovski01:
Thanks for using my software. Yes, with this program you can make your own boot animations. :)
[Android Themes] chitose_ndy:
Will try later :)
[Android Themes] yorkeandvedder:
Playback bug..?

First, I'd like to say THANK YOU! So much! This program of yours (as well as the previewer) has been a blessing in getting my boot animations finally done!

One quick thing, though, that I hope you could help me with, if you don't mind...

When I originally set up the parameters, all the JPGs were in landscape mode and regardless of how I set up the resolution, the animation would always play in the wrong orientation (horizontal vs vertical).

So.. I rotated all JPGs clockwise, and sure enough when I played them in the your previewer, everything looked perfect (including orientation-wise). However, after installing the animation to my phone, upon playback, the image is... Distorted? At an angle, and the animation's duplicated on top and bottom where there should probably just been black bars...?

Any idea what might be causing that...? Or how to fix it? I'd appreciate any help you can give me.

Thanks!
[Android Themes] despotovski01:
Maybe you mixed the width with the height. And thanks for using my software! :)
[Android Themes] ShadowCodeGaming:
Virus?

WTF why is there a trojan in there? Norton delete's the file immediately. Please fix

Edit: I was able to use the creator without norton antivirus, But when i turn the antivirus on again it delete's the file again.
[Android Themes] despotovski01:
No, there's not. Some anti-viruses detect programs written in vb.net as viruses. I haven't put any viruses in my program, nor plan to do that in the future. I have scanned my program with several AVs and they didn't detect anything.
[Android Themes] despotovski01:
Update

I've updated Boot Animation Creator to 1.1.0.0. Here's what has changed since the last version:

v1.1.0.0 {02.11.2011}

-No folder limitations

-New way of entering properties

-The program detects the size of your frames, so you don't need to write them. Optionally, you can change the size values

-The "Get Boot Animation Previewer" button in the Main Menu becomes "Launch Boot Animation Previewer" if you have Boot Animation Previewer installed. The download process of Boot Animation Previewer has changed as well

-No need of Administrator privileges

-New way of updating

-New Updater

-Higher-quality icon

Download link: http://d01microapps.elementfx.com/Downloads/install_bootanimationcreator.msi

Note: If you have a previous version of Boot Animation Creator installed, you must uninstall it first. Also, if you have a previous version of Boot Animation Creator, don't update it with the updater - download the newer version manually.

As always, feedback is highly appreciated. :)
[Android Themes] tnpapadakos:
very nice...thanks
[Android Themes] :
I can't get to get the app working.

Can someone make an animation of the jpeg's in my zip?

Send it back via pm please

thanks in advance

Here's the link: http://www.2shared.com/file/-TI8YwyS/Boot_animation.html
[Android Themes] despotovski01:
What problem do you have?
[Android Themes] tnpapadakos:
it had nothing to do with the app, you had the jpgs in there, but nothing else...here, i made it for ya
[Android Themes] krimsticks:
works! thanks a lot dude :D
[Android Themes] tnpapadakos:
yes, you're welcome
[Android Themes] promek:
Download link not working, can you please fix

EDIT:

Never Mind I got it Thanks again will try it out
[Android Themes] zscomp:
Very handy tool! Really liked it!

---------- Post added at 06:01 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:57 PM ----------

I dont think its so easy as i think its rom related.For my rom (checkrom rev hd) needs only a poweron.wav in etc folder.

Except if he makes different version for different roms.
[Android Themes] despotovski01:
I'm glad you like my program. :)

By the way, do you know how to set a property in the desc.txt file to play a boot sound? Because I want to implement that feature in my Creator for a long time. :)
[Android Themes] zscomp:
It depends.Some roms need to set it in the desc file,some in a script in system folded (build.prop) and others doesnt need anything.

Some phones need an ogg file ,others need mp3 ,others wav....And even installed in different directories!

For example in the Checkrom revolution by leomar(one of the most popular roms), you dont need to set anything!

You just place the sound file in the correct folder (system/etc/poweron.wav).

For my personal use,i use your tool to make the bootanimation.zip and then i put it in another zip containing the wav and the script to install them with CWM.

Check the attached file for example.

Better leave your tool as it is, or you need to make different version for each phone model!

The only thing you have to change,is to allow installation in a user specified folder.
[Android Themes] despotovski01:
Thanks for your opinion, I really appreciate it. :)
[Android Themes] maliedoo:
great program, thanks man!

btw: right click -> save link as... fixed the broken link issue.
[Android Themes] despotovski01:
I'm glad you like my program. :)

By the way, I've never heard of the 'broken link' issue. Can you tell me how it happened please, so I can fix it?
[Android Themes] BigPickle80:
Does This have the ability to add sound to my boot animation ?
[Android Themes] despotovski01:
No, because the boot sound system is different for every ROM. :)
[Android Themes] zscomp:
Example of Galaxy S II latest roms.

Go to post 87 and download the file.Replace the bootanimation.zip with yours and do the same with the file poweron.wav.Install it in recovery mode.

Depending from the rom you have, maybe something its different.

You can try it .Even if your rom needs something different, you will not cause any trouble.It will just wont work :)
[Android Themes] zscomp:
Found a minor bug :)

If you put the speed under 10 images/sec, the previewer gives an error :)
[Android Themes] despotovski01:
Thanks for the bug report. I will try to fix it as soon as possible. :)
[Android Themes] onlychevys:
Great program! I'm working on a chevy theme and this just made it so easy for me to make a cool boot animation. Thanks so much for your work!

I hit thanks and rated 5 stars, thanks again
[Android Themes] despotovski01:
I'm glad you like my program. Can you send me your boot animation please? I love Chevys!
[Android Themes] onlychevys:
Still working on it, I don't know that much about what I'm doing. I know what I want just trying to figure out how to do it. Frames are drawn, but I don't think I'm setting them up right. I need to play with this some more & figure it out. There is alot of info online but most is worded a bit over my head.
[Android Themes] tung91:
great ! Working perfect , i try to make bootscreen manually but get black screen, with your program it works perfect :eek: :)
[Android Themes] ixijimixi:
Thanks for the great program.

I'm running a Samsung Infuse with CM7, and was having very little luck installing boot animations. I tried flashing a few on Recover (only one that I had downloaded worked), and installing a few via Bootanimation Utility (the ones downloaded from the app itself worked fairly well, but no luck with most of the ones I imported).

I took a couple that I really liked (AngryAndroid1.0 from here, an Aperature Labs one I found on Android Labs), and "recompiled" them with your program. I'm still having no luck with flashing them, but they install very nicely with Bootanimation Utility now. A little cumbersome, sure, but it works, so I ain't messing with it :D

I'm not quite sure what's fixing it. It's making a small change in the desc.txt file:

Before

480 800 15

p 1 0 part0

p 0 0 part1

After

480 800 30

p 1 0 part0

p 1 0 part1

It's obviously changing the FPS to a different value (30 as opposed to 15), but I'm not sure what that first value is (# of repetitions of frames, I'd imagine?)...nor do I know if that'd be enough of a difference between an animation working or me getting a blank screen. Maybe it's just the way it's zipped up.

Either way, thanks. Now I have one MORE thing I have to decide how I'm going to customize :D
[Android Themes] zscomp:
The value you mentioned is the fps.

Your problem wasnt the fps but the format of desc.txt or the zip format.

You notepad++ to edit a desc.txt file and choose STORE instead of normal when you zip the bootanimation.zip
[Android Themes] ixijimixi:
Well, I wasn't the one zipping them...I just downloaded them and watched them fail :D

The 15 and 30 were the FPS values. It was the 1 & 0 I was talking about.
[Android Themes] despotovski01:
Then the person who zipped them failed. :)
[Android Themes] ZaLiTHkA:
That value is the number of times the animation from the specified folder (part0 or part1) will loop. If it's a 0 then it will loop infinitely and never move to the next folder, if it's 1 it will loop once and then move to the next folder, a 2 will make it loop twice times before moving to the next folder, etc etc.
[Android Themes] ixijimixi:
I figured it was something like that. Any guess on what the second value is? (the one that stayed 0 for both)

BTW, love the Avatar. Always good to see some of the older games get some love :D
[Android Themes] thedr0idboy:
Thanks for your tools, it´s very useful but I have some problems to visualize it with a 1920x1200 resolution.
[Android Themes] zscomp:
Better convert them first.The phone have 480x800 resolution :)
[Android Themes] thedr0idboy:
Hi,

Thank you very much for the advice, but changing the bootanimation,s resolution in the program works perfectly.

I mean the program,s resolution when running on PC.

I attach a screenshot in case it is useful.
[Android Themes] zscomp:
What is exactly your problem then?

Slow framerate? black screen? what?

And keeping them 1920x1200 the only thing you do is keeping the file huge without reason :)
[Android Themes] thedr0idboy:
Sure, the images for bootanimation are 480x800 resolution as you say. What I mean is that when I run your program on PC with a monitor and a resolution of 1920x1200, I can not use its options because it does not display correctly.
[Android Themes] zscomp:
1st its not my program :)

Can you attach a screenshot to understand it?
[Android Themes] despotovski01:
How does it display? Can you provide a screenshot please?
[Android Themes] ilievski.ace:
Bravo Majstore :)

Vakvi Luge ni trebaat :) Bravo
[Android Themes] despotovski01:
Фала за поддршка! Драго ми е што ти се свиѓа програмот. :d
[Android Themes] thedr0idboy:
Hi,

It displays just like that.
[Android Themes] ZaLiTHkA:
Sorry I took so long to reply, I've been at a friend's place playing Magic most of the weekend. :) Got some awesome cards from New Phyrexia the other day, so I had to try them out...

If I remember correctly, the second number is the delay in milliseconds between each frame. So for example, a line stating p 1 10 part0 would loop the frames in the part0 folder once, with a 10 millisecond delay between each one, then move on to the next folder. The basic idea is to have finer control over the speed of the animation, so you can make one part of the animation slower than the rest. Using the frame rate (set in the first line) sets the animation speed for all folders in the animation.

Oh, and yeah, I love the classic games.. :D DOTT is one of my favourite old games of all time, just because of the characters.. That talking horse cracked me up every time without fail. :)

Just a thought, but that looks like a DPI issue to me... Are you running Windows with custom DPI settings? Maybe 125% or 150%?
[Android Themes] despotovski01:
That's definitely a problem with your screen settings and how windows are displayed on your screen. I guess you made the borders and windows bigger because your resolution is really big. Change the settings that are making this and the program should display good. :)
[Android Themes] TheGreatSega:
how to slow down the

how do i slow down the animation?? its too fast.. and what is the digit to set the boot at infinity??
[Android Themes] zscomp:
0=infinity 10 is the lower you can put (i think).
[Android Themes] wapvirus:
Thanks for the great application I look forward to making my own animations just one comment can you update the link in post #1 as I had to troll through the whole thread to find a download link ;)
[Android Themes] despotovski01:
Thanks for your comment. But, there is a download link in the first post.
[Android Themes] jjmk4096:
Thank you and keep up the good work.

I have spent many hours trying to get the boot animation I had created to work. You program got it working on the first try.

THANK YOU!
[Android Themes] -Grift-:
kiddy hand writing :D
[Android Themes] nevertells3:
I created a folder named part0 and put 73 .jpg's in it. I started your program and when I select that folder your program says:

"Please select a folder with a boot animation!"

So what am I doing wrong?

Thanks
[Android Themes] zscomp:
You have to select the parent folder of part0.
[Android Themes] nevertells2:
Aleksander or anyone who might know the answer to this question. I have noticed that some boot animations have a part0 and others have part0 and part1. Is there a limit to the number of .jpg's that one can place in part1? If you do have to create 2 parts, what do you set the number of loops in each part? Is there a way to set a delay before a loop starts again? Aleksander does not have this option in his program. Thanks
[Android Themes] zscomp:
I usually dont exceed the 100 images inside a folder.If i have 300 images i make part0,part1,part2

I dont think there is a delay between loops.

And theres a different choice of loops for each part.Create an animation with 2 prts and you ll see.
[Android Themes] nevertells2:
Boot Animations

That sounds reasonable. What happens if you include more than 100 images in a folder? Another question, what frame rate do you use for your animations? I see some guys using 30 or higher and others setting theirs at rate as low as 12. I am resizing some animations that I have downloaded to fit the HP Touchpad's unique screen size of 4x3.(768x1024) I have found that I have to stay at rates closer to 20 to keep from having some strange results when the TouchPad plays the animation. Any insight you can provide into creating successful animations would be appreciated. :)

One other thing I noticed. The desc.txt file reads like this: p 0 0 part0 I know what one of the zero's preceding part0 does, but what does the other one do?
[Android Themes] zscomp:
I dont think theres a problem with a limit in images inside a folder.

I personally make bootanimations with "video settings" like 25 fps (PAL)

Keeping 100 images in a folder helping me track the transitions in the animation better (25 fps means 4 seconds for each 100 images folder).

If you want to change something between you can track it more easily ;)

These are tips not requirements :)

The fps is depending from what you want to show.

A slow animation doesnt need high rate.But a video like, does need it.

I made a "slow" bootanimation for omega rom.

Download it and check it for yourself http://www.multiupload.com/AP5UCXAACW

And if you want to check a faster bootanimation check this http://www.multiupload.com/2RQZOEILPB

Its a double-head eagle.Made it for my favourite football team :)

See people's animations and then check the settings.Then you ll understand the settings better :)

Hope it helps :)
[Android Themes] nevertells2:
Sorry @zscomp, I added a question to my previous post, but you replied before I could get it in there. Thanks for all the wisdom:

One other thing I noticed. The desc.txt file reads like this: p 0 0 part0 I know what one of the zero's preceding part0 does, but what does the other one do?

Edit: I Googled my question and should have done so before asking you. It seems that the second zero in the desc.txt file is for a delay, it can be up to 10.

What I didn't find out was what the number stands for, milliseconds or what.
[Android Themes] zscomp:
Tried to change it but no effect.So i am leaving it as it is.