Animated Backgrounds Solution - The Framed Stages Way

[diguana]

how do I slow these animated backgrounds down!!!! I'm using the mac version of the Alarian Mod 2.7. Please help me? The animated background runs too fast even when @ 0

[Gothic Fighter]

May I post another way? Here is it:
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1)Download e-right Super(c) from the next link:
http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html#Dnload

2)Install it.

3)When you will open it, the next window should appear:



4)Select any video on your PC and drag it into the bottom of the windows(Where it says "Drag a valid
multimedia file here..."

5)Change the Output Container to "Sequence of images".
6)Change the Output Video Codec to "PNG".
7)Right-click and select "Output file saving management" and choose a location for saving your images.
8)Click "Encode active files" and wait.

That's all! Be sure not to have lots of frame because this can lead to game lagging, long loading times(I know what I'm saying. My first animations had 1200 frames )

[gabx]

Hello everybody. I'm a frets on fire Rookie. I want to use a .gif image as stage or use a 3D Guitar Zero stage istead of a .png image... What can I do??? please help me!!!! I love FoF but the stages are really poor...

PD: Sorry if my English wasn't perfect. I'm Argentinian.

[Deansly]

if i wanna put a very long video in and its like 6000 frames do i have to name every single frame stage_1, stage_2, stage_3 ect. manually????

EDIT

lol nvm thats way too many frames

[ADH]

Hello everybody. I'm a frets on fire Rookie. I want to use a .gif image as stage or use a 3D Guitar Zero stage istead of a .png image... What can I do??? please help me!!!! I love FoF but the stages are really poor...

PD: Sorry if my English wasn't perfect. I'm Argentinian.

sorry FOF does not support .gif images. and FOF is not guitar Zero either so wy would you want guitar zero bg's??? if you want to play GZ download GZ.

if i wanna put a very long video in and its like 6000 frames do i have to name every single frame stage_1, stage_2, stage_3 ect. manually????

EDIT

lol nvm thats way too many frames

yeah 6000 stages would probably take a long time to load.

[ahsq12]

Hi, is there a away to put different backgroungs but just to have one play on the song im playing to? like repeting the same one but having different option so the "random stage" works for each song

[letal toxin]

please where in the game is the option rotate stages i cant find it

[howie469]

i dont see a stage folder in my data folder only some files related to stage PLEASE HELP

[bun]

How can i use different background stages in each song? Do i have to use one at the time?

[sean_t61]

If you don't see the stages folder in data, go to themes, look in the specific theme folder (e.g. Rock Band 2). That's where I found mine. Also, If you want to use more than one the only way I've found so far is just to label them numerically in order. For example, say Stage 1, the first stage you'd like to use is five frames, label each frame Stage001, Stage002,..., to Stage005. Then start the next Stage at Stage006, and so one. it will always be the same order, but you can use them all. There's probably a better way out there or in development, but it's a way...

[brian dietterich]

ok so i downloaded some backgrounds and all of them work but then i made my own i followed all the steps and i still cant get it to work

[brian dietterich]

i have alarian 3.000
alll the stage folders i have downloaded seem to work fine but the ones i custom make dont load and crash the frets on fire game , its not the number of slides because there is only 60!
also i am using PNG images
might there be something wrong? please send detailed list of steps to take to make a custom animated stage!!!

[spammster]

since this seems to be such an issue and people just don't get it, here's a method how this will work (hopefully one day real video files or at least animated gifs will be possible, loading 300 images takes already like a minute)

used for this example:
Fofix V3.1 (latest)
GHIII mod
A clip from a Cranberries Concert

1. rip the images from the video file, theres a gazillion programs that do this, personally I like "Free Video To JPG Converter" since it lets you select the amount of frames to be grabbed (every 5th frame works nicely for me) however, this one does not support PNG, so i batch em with Photoshop to save them as PNGs.

2. use a program like "total Commander" to rename the files from whatever name they have to: Stage001.png (make sure png is written in LOWER CASE, upper case gives me issues)

3. put all these images either in a subfolder or put them directly in the folder path for the stages (GHIII mod) : FoFix\data\themes\Guitar Hero III\stages\
personally i have it set up like this:
FoFix\data\themes\Guitar Hero III\stages\stage1\stage1.png etc. are the ones that came with the mode
\stages\stage2\stage1.png etc. are the animated ones

you can select which folder shall be used in the settings

for the settings:



if you put the images in the mainfolder, select "Slideshow" instead of "Stage2"

and thats all there is to do, now just select the song you wanna play and play

video example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nqdQMJyTqo

[PsychoJack]

It's playing on Frets on Fire MFH Mod v3.017 ??

[slashfan7964]

when i do that it says cant determine video size what do i do