saving animations from a web site

girly · Post by **girly** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 10:21 am

When I try to save an animation from a web site it saves as a BMP file, I don't seem to have a choice. eg I tried to save the dragon from Viking Animation's tutorial but it only saves on my hard drive as a BMP. Is there a way round this please.

Thanks

Post by **VikingAnimations** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 10:49 am

That's a common bug with Internet Explorer... If you have Firefox or another browser, it will work fine.

If not, then in Internet Explorer, click "Tools, Internet Options."

In the Temporary Files section, click the "Delete Files" button. Click OK, then close IE. Reopen it and try again.

If that doesn't work, let us know. There is another option to try, but it's a much larger pain in the

to do.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 10:53 am

Do you mean this picture?

http://vikingswebanimation.ca/tuts/advtweenf.html

If so right click the picture and select "Save Image as"
In the box "Save as type" select GIF.
To view it on your machine right click the picture and in the list that pops up select "Preview."

Post by **VikingAnimations** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 10:57 am

Nope, this one...

Either way, IE screws up once in a while and the only format it wants to let you use is BMP. I've had that happen a few times myself.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 11:05 am

Robert,
Both of your animations are brilliant. I use mozilla firefox and no problem saving it as an animated GIF.

Post by **VikingAnimations** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 11:12 am

Thank you Steve! The dragon by itself I didn't do, it's from http://www.animationlibrary.com/ - I just modified it by duplicating some frames for the purpose of the tutorial.

The best version of this is here:
http://vikingswebanimation.ca/samples/f ... on_swf.htm
There's animated water, a reflection of the dragon, and the dragon's shadow.

Opera, Firefox, Netscape will always behave in that regard. Internet Explorer has had that bug for years now, and they can't seem to fix it. Maybe IE 7 has corrected it, I have no idea...

girly · Post by **girly** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 11:21 am

Hi

I tried deleting files in Internet Explorer and tried saving the animation again. This time it saved as a GIF - brilliant.

Thanks again, I shall try the tutorial now.

Post by **VikingAnimations** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 11:30 am

Excellent! Enjoy the tutorial!