Animated Gif limitation

WegPast

Feb 22, 2015 at 12:22 pm

Okay so what's funny is...

I can't export my animation with more than 256 color with PyxelEdit, but I still can make one by recording the playback with GifCam .... What a shame :/

And with GifCam :

Danik

Mar 1, 2015 at 2:31 pm

Gif doesn't support more than 256 colors, although I think there are tricks to work around it. I'm not sure if GifCam preserves all colors or if there is some quantization?

CandyFace

Mar 1, 2015 at 5:05 pm

Yea there are some ways to go around it, though with limitations... afaik Gifcam uses this method too.

The question has been answered here:

http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/304/can-i-have-an-animated-gif-with-more-than-256-colours-per-frame

and this explains GIF with true color:

http://phil.ipal.org/tc.html

Danik

Mar 1, 2015 at 8:33 pm

Thanks for the links. Yes, if I understand correctly, they use an animated GIF where each frame is a 256 pixel square with a separate color table and zero delay, and where the previous frames are retained. So the image is built up as a result of the animation.

CandyFace

Mar 2, 2015 at 12:07 pm

From what i understand, the first 256 pixel square should use the frame delay but the rest should be zero. The rest sounds right.

WegPast

Mar 25, 2015 at 1:35 am

Yes I saw that too. I started this thread without knowing about true color Gif. But now maybe PyxelEdit will be gifted with this feature :D
In a far future I think, though x)

For the time I'm working around to reduce the number of differents colors... And it's really not easy and, offcourse, reduces quality :/

WegPast

Mar 25, 2015 at 2:14 am

Yeah I made it \o/

But the uploading system seems to be down :(