Dark Knight ez Posted July 28, 2007 Share Posted July 28, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stefanhendriks Posted July 28, 2007 Share Posted July 28, 2007 http://nahoo.net/games/dune2/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stefanhendriks Posted July 28, 2007 Share Posted July 28, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Knight ez Posted July 29, 2007 Author Share Posted July 29, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemafakei Posted July 29, 2007 Share Posted July 29, 2007 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Knight ez Posted July 29, 2007 Author Share Posted July 29, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stefanhendriks Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 I can't login @ dune2k with the ftp info i have. But i posted it at : www.fundynamic.com/downloads/32gifs15.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minniat Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 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. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stefanhendriks Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hokomoko Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Knight ez Posted August 19, 2007 Author Share Posted August 19, 2007 Hex editing? Awkward.Anyway, a big thanks from me for creating these GIFs. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hokomoko Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Knight ez Posted August 28, 2007 Author Share Posted August 28, 2007 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. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Knight ez Posted September 4, 2007 Author Share Posted September 4, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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