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Train Graphics - How do they make it move?

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, April 30, 2005 10:46 PM
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Posted by FJ and G on Saturday, April 30, 2005 6:39 AM
Buckeye,

Can we expect some animated gifs from you soon? :-)

Looking over Tom's link was pretty neat, the scenes that the designer had done. Heck, you could build an entire gif layout on your computer without ever getting your hands dirty. About the only downside I see is the long loading time on your computer. But once it's there, the darn train runs forever in its gif land.
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Posted by prewardude on Friday, April 29, 2005 9:08 PM
Well Buckeye, considering that's Jimmie Rodgers in my photo, we'd first have to build you a time machine so that you could go back to the 1920s to find out where he got 'em from! He might have gotten them when he worked on the New Orleans and Northeastern lines... I don't know. [:)]
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Posted by Buckeye Riveter on Friday, April 29, 2005 6:35 AM
I knew somebody would know how to do it. Thanks.

BTW, Prewar, you and I must shop for clothing at the same store. Of course, my outfit is a tad small for me these days, so where do I get a new outfit?

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Posted by spankybird on Friday, April 29, 2005 6:11 AM
here is another site to look at


http://www.frograil.com

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Posted by prewardude on Thursday, April 28, 2005 9:57 PM
This should help explain it:
http://members.aol.com/royalef/gifmake.htm
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Train Graphics - How do they make it move?
Posted by Buckeye Riveter on Thursday, April 28, 2005 9:41 PM
How do they construct a graphic of the train that moves across the computer? See example on this web page.

http://www.claudiovianini.com/pages/LIBRARIES/BO.html

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