Hey there, SEN!
Anyone of you interested into doing me a favor?
I'd like to have a gif for an external program, indicating it is loading stuff. It shouldn't be too bright; maybe have good alpha channel or be semi-gray.
A quick draft of what I had in mind:

Whereas the one lighter green thing is a tile which is "rotating"; as in every tile (clockwise) gets highlighted at a decent speed.

The Globe should either be the SC1 StareditGlobe or the SC2 Galaxy Edit (slightly preferred).


The image should be around 300x300 pixels.
EDIT: .gif do not have alpha channel? I have no experience with animated pictures creation by the way.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Jul 13 2014, 3:40 pm by Devourer.

Where would one get a high quality SEN globe?

EDIT: Ahh, found it - http://www.staredit.net/w/senglobe.png

EDIT: Here, my attempt


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Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Jul 13 2014, 8:06 pm by Swampfox.

Aww yeah, this is pretty much what I had in mind except for [s]one thing! Can you make it (by far) darker? Also, there appears to be a small white border around the globe. Think you can get rid of it?
And maybe, rotate the globe by 45° so the "grid"-part is facing bottom left? could look better, I guess

Other than that, great work.

The border seems to be an issue with the .gif file format, being unable to render partial transparency, so the antialiasing doesnt work.

Here's a couple more:


http://gifmaker.me/PlayGIFAnimation.php?folder=2014071308FFgsWbHkN7ziQsOcUhEA26&file=output_0BRiyZ.gif


http://gifmaker.me/PlayGIFAnimation.php?folder=201407130823IRaT4IMnKLbt9QbonkvD&file=output_NwsP1A.gif


Another cool one that has partially transparent rings, but as i stated above, it wont work when animated as a .gif (this is one of the 8 base .png files).


I wanted to upload the origninal .png files so you can see how the quality is degraded in the .gifs. I'm a noob at this too, so maybe you'll want to consider animating with a different format. I was browsing around and there are better ones you can use, they just may not be as widely supported.

Well, I could accept a loss of image-quality, since the image is shown for a very very short time.
Anyways; it is too bright - by far.
EDIT: Also, maybe a bit faster?

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Jul 13 2014, 10:02 pm by Devourer.

http://gifmaker.me/PlayGIFAnimation.php?folder=20140713111vOvQ92bvIktrZH4rypiaO&file=output_QJzMBf.gif


http://gifmaker.me/PlayGIFAnimation.php?folder=2014071312E3dDGnCSrnUJk32WgIIkGG&file=output_Z5hDkV.gif

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Jul 14 2014, 1:21 am by Swampfox.

The last one looks very good and is fitting nice.
I guess I will use that one. Thank you very much!

http://gifmaker.me/PlayGIFAnimation.php?folder=2014071314WZ0ZTA3fhR819htQSwf5GU&file=output_qxZbhM.gif

Makes me think, why not just a solid ring that spins... one sec!


http://gifmaker.me/PlayGIFAnimation.php?folder=2014071315xEVhTHT177bybf9GdZysNE&file=output_8aUAjg.gif

That looks kinda cool

Rolling Sen


Lol, I'm just having too much fun with this.


lol...


Post has been edited 4 time(s), last time on Jul 14 2014, 4:40 am by Swampfox.

Here's my humble attempt:


Or, alternatively:

Haha
god I do not regret creating this topic, he.


Anyways, Roy, thank you very much. It is like swampfox, but it is more polished.

I'm back with some HD (300x300) loader gifs:

Full:


No Grid:


Cartoony:


Dark Theme:

Wow.

These are great! What project is this for?

Alright, one more. Because someone who shall not be named was complaining that my last ones have too many pegs: