Does anyone know where to find the Dune 2 intro in GIF format?

[Dark Knight ez]

Like the topic says:

Does anyone know where I can find (a set of) animated GIFs of the Dune 2 intro?

I'd rather not convert the still frames to animated GIF myself if other people have already done it.

Greets,

Dark Knight ez.

[stefanhendriks]

http://nahoo.net/games/dune2/

[stefanhendriks]

Ah dang it. I meant the intro is there, but not in GIF. It was in GIF ( i think...). Anyhow. It would be possible to just extract all BMP files from the intro and then convert them into a GIF file i suppose.

[Dark Knight ez]

I know it's possible. The palette consists out of 256 entries for each intro scene (well, for the most part anyway, if you don't count the multiple layers for rockets and such). I'm just sort of lazy and thought someone else might have done it already. I saw the harvester scene of the intro as animated GIF on these forums right here, but can't find the other scenes. Also checked out the site(s) linked to, but had no luck in finding more.

[nemafakei]

I think I have them all somewhere, however the version I can *actually* find is missing a few extended frames which I had to rip manually. Can someone with a server - Stefan? - make sure they're hosted permanently.

32gifs15.zip

[Dark Knight ez]

You're right. It seems ordos.gif and harkonnen.gif are missing a couple of frames. Still, this saves me A LOT of effort. So thanks, Nema Fakei.

I must say, I'm surprised that you have ordos.gif and harkonnen.gif in the first place, because they actually exist out of multiple layers originally with each layer having their own palette. You probably had to drop some colours, right? Not that it matters, because it looks great and I wouldn't notice if I didn't know the amount of colours needed to be reduced to be an animated GIF. Looking at how good this looks, makes me wonder why Westwood went through all the trouble of making it multi-layered, multi-paletted.

[stefanhendriks]

I can't login @ dune2k with the ftp info i have. But i posted it at : www.fundynamic.com/downloads/32gifs15.zip

[minniat]

Here you can find animation of damaged tank from intro in GIF format:

I can convert whole intro if You wish! Hope I helped some. :)

[stefanhendriks]

Always welcome to have nice gifs. I don't know if the gif pack i deliver also contains that scene, though i do know it is very much complete.

[hokomoko]

Stumbled on this and took it as a project, several hours of hex editing, programming and other crap, and here are the missing scenes:

http://files.filefront.com//;8299827;;/

if anyone wants the frames, they're here:

http://files.filefront.com//;8299837;;/

P.S. Even had to register to the forum :D

[Dark Knight ez]

Hex editing? Awkward.

Anyway, a big thanks from me for creating these GIFs. :)

[hokomoko]

yea, I understood why the pics didn't show right, it's not the pallete, but the cutscenes format, if anyone likes a more thorough explanation, I'll be happy to answer.

[Dark Knight ez]

Welllll.... I'm definitely interested to hear, but if it'll be awkward and taking up a lot of energy to explain, might be best if you don't. After all, I already got what I was hoping for, really. :)

[Dark Knight ez]

Apparently, something's missing...

When the emperor talks in the intro, he says two sentences:

"Whoever controls the spice, controls Dune."

"There are no set rules and territories and no rules of engagement."

Now, in the intro pak file - as well as the .gif file I have right now - the emperor only says the first sentence.

After that, he's supposed to quickly move his eyes to the right and back again, and say the second sentence.

I've checked the finale pak (in which the emperor speaks as well) but that doesn't seem to contain the eyemovement... So, no idea what Dune2 uses for the eyemovement and the second sentence. Anybody has an idea regarding this?

Edit:

Ugh. I used a Youtube video as reference material because I was too lazy to boot up DosBox each time. Anyway, it seems there are different versions of the intro... changes such as the subtitle (The Battle for Arrakis or The Building of A Dynasty), the order of the westwood and virgin logo, and the talk of the emperor.

So basicly, my version didn't have the eyemovement, so the graphics for it wasn't included, obviously.