I'm trying to put an ident into my game using PlayFlic (as FLCs do these kinds of full screen animations more efficiently than AGS' inbuilt animation) but I've come across a bit of a problem - the first frame of the animation is corrupted, and I'm not sure how to solve it. The rest of the animation works fine - the frames appear to be delta encoded and soon cut through the corruption, but the first frame doesn't seem to exist. I made it with Jasc Animation Shop 3, and checked it with Autodesk Animator Studio Player.
Here's what the (corrupted) frame looks like:
[imgzoom]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50882197/Game/Heatwave/error/corruption.PNG[/imgzoom]
Here's the FLC file: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50882197/Game/Heatwave/error/FLIC0.flc
And here's the game's palette: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50882197/Game/Heatwave/error/palette.bmp
It's definitely not a palette issue, as then colours are all the right kind - but... it's just not working. I've used all the FLC playing options, and opening the FLC in other programs doesn't produce the same result. What's going on here?
workaround idea: Put another frame before the first frame, preferrably a black frame and render and try again.
That worked! I just put a transparent frame and told AGS not to blank the screen before playing it. Now it plays fine, and setting the duration of the first frame to 0 seconds means that it never shows up anyway. I'll make a note of it in future.
Weird behaviour, though. I wonder why it's doing that?
Edit: It flashes before it starts the animation, even when I told it not to clear the screen. Lame. :< Gonna try a few things to see if it was using the right transparent colour.