heh another avatar related thread by me. anyways i wanted to use this animation i made with graphics gale but when i save it as a gif, the gif file plays it slower than how it plays in graphics gale. i tryed setting the delay for the frames shorter but it doesnt make a difference. is there any way around this? it looks crappy all slow.
(http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r293/fusionex914/tf2scout.gif)
If you are using Internet explorer, it changes the delay on some animations, I believe.
I believe the preview window might be the same.
Try viewing it with Firefox or similar :).
it could be but then when people see it on their computer with IE then the delay would still be messed up for them.
I can verify that there is definitely a lag in the animation between Firefox and IE. Seems to me that FF is probably displaying the image using the delay set in the GIF whereas IE is probably using whatever delay it feels like.
IE fails in several respects to follow web-standards, and is continuously making up its own standard (to which it mostly doesn't even conform itself). Basically IE is the rebellious teenager of web-browsers. Maybe one day it will meet a nice girl and settle down somewhere. :=
The only alternative I could see is to put a note about the problem (IE does not show the animation at true speed) and then provide a link to the animation itself, so people can open it outside the browser and onto their prefered way of viewing image files.
and I also confirm that IE shows the animation slowly!
I confirm that as well.
I know there is a thread for this issue but FF runs everything smoother than IE, I don't know why I normally use IE.
Just to clarify (and forgive me if I am incorrect, but I believe this is the case), Internet Explorer will set any gif with a designated of above 10 frames per second to a slower speed.
Therefore, short of removing frames from the animation, you may just have to be content with it as it is.
I tried with a Gecko browser (not ff) and IE, and they look the same. When I put them side by side I can see the other one has slightly different timing, but it's impossible to tell which one.
Some more info on delays that may be useful :): http://humpy77.deviantart.com/journal/12374968/