Skills which target self (such as Ether Renewal) should be recorded with the front of the character facing the screen.

Use neutral armor, outfit, weapons and colors so that focus is on the skill.

The area should also be relatively clear of people (such as an instanced area or a less populated server).

Recording should ideally happen in an area without too colorful an environment, so colors in a skill animation are clearly visible.

Animations should be recorded without any traits active which would affect that skill (or its effects-for example, if it knocks your character down).

Animations should be recorded from slightly above the character, allowing full view of the animation.

See Appendix 1 for a small guide on how to configure Fraps. Many external software may be used for the recording, such as Fraps.Upload gifs of basically all skills and effects.6 Appendix 2: Using Jasc Animation Shop 3.It would be so much nicer of Animate did this. Why don't I just use my other GIF Animator? Because doing so would involve another tedious step: I would have to save the GIF from Animator, then load it into my other GIF Animator, and then delete the superfluous frames, then set a slower frame rate on the remaining frames. There doesn't appear to be a way to do this in Adobe Animate. How did I determine this? I tried chopping out, all but one frame, in each of the places in the animation, where nothing changes, and the files size shrank by a factor of 6!!Īm I missing some optimization setting, or is this just a limitation of the software?Īnother thing I can do in this other GIF Animation program I own is: Set individual frame rates for frames in the animation.

In other words, the Export utility is not collapsing these frames, to conserve file space. In my search for ways to reduce this file size I discovered that all those frames where nothing changes are NOT being optimized. When I export this as an Animated GIF the file size is rather large. I did it this way, because, apparently, an Adobe Animate GIF animation can have only one frame rate - even though it's possible to set varying frame rates in an animated GIF. An animation I did, starts with 16 frames of the exact same image.

Jasc animation shop 3