Deskscape help creating dreams

From here:

https://forums.wincustomize.com/366621

"You can use .jpg, or .png files for static images, and animations need to be in the .nwa format.  NWA files are compressed animation files often used in WindowBlinds animations.  There is also a stand-alone NWA encoder in which you can create .nwa files."

If you have SkinStudio, start it up and from the top menu "Tools" / "Build NWA file for animation".  Don't know how it might handle gifs, pngs need to be vertical strips.  Also don't know about the stand-alone NWA encoder he's referring to.  I haven't played with it a lot.

I will try that, thanks!

I am stuck.  I don't have any program that will convert my animated gif to a png.  Gimp won't do it.  One program I tried ran all night and simply created individual png files for each frame.  I tried loading the gif into SkinStudio's nwa creator and it appears to load but when I test the animation it shows nothing in the preview.  By the way, the standalone nwa creator is in the DeskScapes3 folder.

Edit:  I had assumed the standalone nwa creator was simply the program run by the Tools menu in SkinStudio, but it is not.  The standalone version will work with the multiple individual png files.  I just created a nwa file with it but when I loaded it into the SkinStudio nwa creator for a preview, all the frames were black.  

If you just try to build the nwa with say just 3 of your png images, does it work?  I'm wonder how many frames you're trying to make and if it's too many, though I don't know if there's a limit.  I've only done a couple, and they've been in a single png file stacked about 30 high.  If you've got hundreds of frames it might just be choking.

You guys talking about DeskScapes?  

I hope so, at least that's what I'm babbling about Can you get him going in the right direction?

paint.Net.  Open the gif file then do a save as to convert to png.

Here is the link to download it if you dont have it already.  Paint.NET

Here's a thread to get you started... just about everything you need to know to create Dreams.

"How to create Dreams"

nwa...

Unless you plan on going hybrid, nwa is not the way to go.

That being said, if you need a nwa builder for a hybrid creation, use the one in the Deskscapes program directory.

I'm a little busy today but if you need help, PM me and I'll try to help you tomorrow.

This is where we started, which got me thinking Hybrid:

Maybe there's a more direct way to do that in some other program instead of combining them in Deskscapes?  - That's really what he was going for and I just went to Hybrid.

Thanks guys.

Yes, Deskscapes, I conjoined Dreamscene and Deskscapes lol.

Hybrid dreams allow you to add an animated image to a still image which is what I'm trying to do. Gimp always animates the entire image,  even if you have selected a portion so I had to first copy the water into a separate image before animating it.  Now I've got 240 frames (10 seconds) of moving water I want to paste back over the still image.

I'll try paint.net to reconvert the gif to a png.  Thanks everybody!

Paint.net only saved the first frame of the gif when creating the png.  Back to beating my head against the wall.

@DaveRI, very strange.  If I choose fewer frames it appears to load and convert them but as I choose more frames the animation it creates uses fewer and fewer lines of resolution for the animation.  240 frames is really not that many at 25 fps.  Even at loading 24 frames the result is unacceptable as it is about 80% smaller than the original png images.