Hijack Animation Contest!

We installed hijack and uploaded loren's boot animation using jemplode with no problems.

That's not exactly what I meant. What I meant was...

1) The original kernel from the Cambridge guys has two animations, a Rio one and an Empeg one.

2) The latest Hijack, if you don't feed it a custom animation, will use a default animation in the kernel.

3) The default animation in Hijack is no longer the one from the Cambridge guys. (Well, actually it was from me, but they were the ones who compiled it into their kernel.)

4) Mark has replaced the kernel's original animation with Mike Schrag's custom animation in his current Hijack build.

5) So. Did Mark replace the Rio animation as well as the Empeg animation in his current kernel? Or do you only see his replacement default animation if the player uses the Empeg personality? What happens when you use the default animation and you have hijack installed and you have the player set to the Rio personality?

Well actually it was his legs I was looking at.
I really don't think he is all that great looking. Not up there with Harrison Ford or anything.

I wasn't sure what you meant.

this player was set for the rio personality and we saw the new animation built into hijack (the one made by mike) after installing it

Hey Laura, so when are you gonna post your pics?

maybe there should be a hijack menu option (similar to the ac/dc/normal one w/reboot) to change between say standard empeg / rio / hijack / jEmplode... w/reboot..

mark is this possible?

Maybe a dumb question, but I had no idea there was a way to change the players "personality".
How can I change my Rio into Empeg ?
Do I need Hijack for this?

What pics?

You need to use tonys logo editor.
You can get that here.

And heres some more info.

Ok, I used the logo editor, and while I was at it I installed Hijack too!

Works like a charm! Way cool!

Thanks!

It was just a random question.

How many frames was that animation? Is there any consequence to using all 32 frames?

-jason

How many frames was that animation?

-jason

The only consequence I've seen for a longer-than-stock animation is that the custom logo doesn't hang around on the screen as long after the animation is done playing.

My animation (as I stated earlier in this thread) was 27 frames, which I think is the same number of frames as the original waving tux.

27 Unique frames? I am more concerned with the Unique frames than how many times you flash the same frame. if that is what you meant...then great!

Thanks,

J

No, sorry, didn't know that's what you meant.

It's not 27 unique frames. Many frames were re-used. I think that my new RiskyTux is 17 unique frames, 27 total frames, and the original waving tux was 13 unique frames, 27 total frames.

You can find all this information out yourself simply by opening the file in Jemplode...

I have the uneasy feeling that that was his oh-so-subtle way of staring at your breasts.

I think he wants some "install" pr0n.

As far as I know, the 32 frame limit is a totally arbitrary selection ... I imagine that if we decided to allow more, it would work. Technically, there shouldn't be any problem with using all the frames.

Mike

Is there a date for the end of the animation contest?

i dunno how many unique frames. I'd have to open it up at home and count. I'm not getting a custom logo at all after my animation though. For any of them for that matter.

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I think you're being rude and childish, Yz33d. Please treat the members of this forum with respect.

For your information, Laura has a home page here:

http://home.fuse.net/laura927

Don't know why many of its internal links are broken, but any pictures she wants published would tend to be at her home page.

Don't be such a control freak. I'm not trying to disrespect anyone. If Laura wants me to delete the poll, then I'll do so.

Hes not being a control freak, he just doesn't want this place to disintegrate into something resembling an aol chat room.

He's not being a control freak. There is too much testosterone on this BBS as it is. We don't need you scaring away the few females we do have.

It's up to Mark -- I think as long as people are coming up with cool animations it will continue, but it's the default anim for his kernel, so I defer to him....

Mike,

You 'da man, thanks for posting the original logo. The std HJ logo is cool but I ain't ready to cull waving Tux just yet - Tony, (belated) cudos to you for the std logo, nice work fellah. I guess I'm still too much of an empeg newbie to want anything else atm.

Is this empeg feel-good thing abnormal? <g>

Rue

The more I see this, the more I think you should try to put underpants on him....

But it couldn't just be the underpants, I'd have to do the shirt, too.

Thanks, Rue, glad you liked it.

I get a warm fuzzy every time I think about how many people are waving back at the Tux I animated.

I think the underpants are the signature though ... I've bastardized your animation as a proof of concept This was done in like 30 seconds, so nobody is allowed to judge my underpants

... and the gif

yeah I do that everytime...
my fiance makes fun of me though...
I just don't think she'll ever understand...

hmm...that does look pretty good...

First attempt

With the underpants on it makes you realize what a fat-ass that penguin is.

Hmm, He's beginning to look like Homer Simpson. All he needs is a beer can and a haircut.

mmmmm beer

Oh that is way too cool!! Great job on the briefs.



As for the poll being taken I hope people don't really vote, makes me feel a little strange having it there. I may be single but that is not why I come to this board. I am a geek like everyone else here and just enjoy my empeg. Like any other member you can send me a PM or an email. You won't scare me off but don't try to

Hey guys -- I think this is a request to remove the poll .. I think it should be respected.

Thanks.

I would think that any of you guys would feel a bit weird if a poll was started like that about you.

I did post a logo that I made.

Maybe you should....I can think of a suspect.

Options of:

Yes, I've had a bad day, and need a good laugh.
No, I have no need to see pics of someone who thinks he's a 'l33t h8x0R 'cos he knows how to write a BBS poll.

Nah, best to just drop it. No harm was meant.

What the hell is a 'l33t h8x0R?

Let's just let this branch of the thread die quietly, is everyone OK with that? How 'bout that Tony Tux animation, huh? Is that good work or what

Great work.

The underpants end up looking like a diaper when they're by themselves like that.

so nobody is allowed to judge my underpants

Too late.

Actually, you've drawn them fine, it's just that Tux's body shape and the low rez makes it hard to get them to look right. If I'd drawn them they would have looked the same.

Neutrino, that is incredibly cool.

"My name is Bond. Tux Bond."

Tony, Your animation Rocks! I was just honing my Break-Out skills, and watching it forward, then in reverse was sweet. Who knew Tux was so light on his feet :]

as i don't have much time to read all posts - maybe my suggestion is already discussed.

what would you think about a separate page where all animated bootup-gif's are available for download plus a description about how to install it?

Funny you should mention waving back at the Tux. This has been something I have struggled with every time I turn the Empeg on. Almost everyone I have shown the Emeg to waves back, but so far I have resisted. . .

I was wondering if their is a name for a condition where you "wave at inatimant objects"?

-Jeff

Well, I haven't made it to work ontime once this week (on Tuesday I woke up at 12:30), so now that I discovered the animation editor, there's no hope for tomorrow.

Here's my first shot:



It looks cool here, but looks like [censored] on my empeg.

-Christian

The links are broken because I changed ISP's and didn't finish uploading pages because it's a pain. You can't FTP the pages like I used to be able to and have to go to some upload page of their's and can only do 5 at a time.

I need to finish it someday or just take it all down.

YOU late to work?! Is your FC on the fritz again?

There will be (is?) a new section on RioCar.org for them ...

Mike

Thank You, Tony

THAT kicks ass. Man, now i have to go get a DeLorean so i can have that boot anim.

Thanks, Waterman. Glad you liked it!

Christian, that totally rocks!

If it looks like crap on the player, that's probably because of the white background. There's gotta be a way to edit it so that it looks good on a black background.

Blending the edges an the image so that it anti-aliases out to black instead of to white is something that all web artists have to deal with at some time or another in their lifetimes, so perhaps it's time you took a crack at it.

And regarding the work thing: How come you just don't rewind the clock a few hours on your way to work and show up ten minutes early?

It's partially there, people can upload the animated logos, but my approval system is not in place. I would have had it done yesterday, but both versions of Homesite I had at work were crashing on startup. I'll get around to it hopefully today, it's not too much work at this point (thanks to the Java applet )

Tony, didn't you see my post? I think his Flux-Capacitor is on the fritz again...

Christian, I just noticed one other thing about that animation that might be a factor in making it look good on the player.

Your animation uses the "Windows Palette" shades of gray for the darkgray and lightgray shades. These don't translate well to the car player screen, because its two shades of gray are not like the ones in the Windows palette.

If you were building the animation from something that was originally a color or full-grayscale image, I recommend that you use a custom palette when color-reducing it.

To create this custom palette, draw a fresh frame in the animation editor using all four colors, then export that frame as a PNG file. Open that PNG file in your image-editor software and use those colors as the basis for your custom palette.

Can someone make a animation of that annoying penguin getting whacked? He's getting on my nerves..

I don't know what explatives I can use here, but imagine that I'm using them all right now. I got to work at 1PM today.

Yeah, along with the clutch, there's still quite a problem with the FC... oh well, all I really need is a bedtime.

Yeah, I'll keep tweaking the delorean animation until it looks right. I didn't realize that the windows pallate was different than the one that the empeg uses. I guess at 3AM everything looks the same.

BTW, what's happening with the meet, has a place been picked out or not?

-Christian

BTW, what's happening with the meet, has a place been picked out or not?

Yup. The current plan is it will be at a place called the "Boat House" on lake Merced in San Francisco, on Saturday, May 25th. Exact time hasn't been decided. Keep an eye on the General forum and the Announcements forum for the official details when they've been hammered out.

Current thread on the topic is here.

Make sure the hoverconversion kit is in working order by then, you gotta make your proper entrance.

I have an idea. Have the penguin in a car that says empeg on it, and then have some guy come up with the word Hijack on his shirt, pull out a gun, throw the penguin out and drive off.

Oh come on guys, stop bashing Tux. If it wasn't for him we might have a unit that displays a windows logo. Sure you may want to change animations and have one without him appearing, but is it really necessary for hime to meet a violent end?

</me shudders violently at the thought of WinCE on the empeg>

Ok Ok, how about this.... Have the penguin walk into a tattoo parlor and get "Hijack" tattooed on his butt.

.....or if you could give the penguin a baseball bat and have him busting out Windows.

That's it! Have Windows come up with the little window icon, so you think it's Microsoft. Then the penguin walks out with a bat and smashes the window. Then he could piss on the word "Windows" or something. Or you could have "empeg" just drop down from the top knocking the word "Windows" off the screen.

I was thinking about how Hijack at one time let you use multiple dance files to get different dances for flacefloor and I had an idea. How hard, if possible, would it be to be able to have random boot animations? I think that would be really cool. Load it up one time and have james bond, then another time have have tom cruise.

-Greg

Also startup sounds. It would be cool to have the microsoft sound, followed by a baseball bat swing, breaking glass, and then the thud of the hijack logo taking out the microsoft one.

-Christian

</me shudders violently at the thought of WinCE on the empeg>

Don't you mean that you wince at the thought of WinCE?

/me blocks head and upper body from expected pummeling.

"Load it up one time and have james bond, then another time have have tom cruise."

This would be too cool, if it was possible.

BTW, I really like the 007 Tux.

-Jeff

That's it, I'm going to do an animation of Tux pummeling Bitt.

For those that are interested. Heres the 007 penguin a bit more polished

You gotta make the barrel of the gun wiggle after you're hit...

I might have missed something here, but is there a way to get the original animations back with Hijack installed? Hijack seems to have its own default animation, so clearing the animation doesn't work.

Perhaps someone has gifs (or raws) of the original animations somehow?

Alex

Here it is.

http://empeg.comms.net/files/79783-empeg.raw

Cool, thanks. How about the Rio one?

I'd like the Rio animation too, Please.
I really only want the digital audio part but I'll take what I can get.

Thanks to whom ever can do this.

Here it is, (almost) straight from the kernel source code.

-ml

Thank you Mlord

Ok here’s my compilation of favorite animations and new ideas. Thanks to tfabris for the Tux slide and mschrag for the animator, and mlord for getting me the Rio animation.

And the gif

hey thats really cool!
thanks!

Dude, the glint on the glasses is really cool. Wish I'd thought of that.

This has nothing to do with anyone on this board unless Bruno happens to be a member of this site but I made this animation and I like even if I only own the engine out of a Teg.

Your attachment didn't work.

If I'm a member of which board? Guess I'll have to see the attachment.

By the way, did you ever make a ppost detailing how you wrote-off your TypeR? If so, point me to the thread...

Bruno

wrote off? what do you mean wrote off? ok the image was to large how do I compress an animated gif?

Tony, I was thinking about this and I have a question for you:

Was the boot-logo (non-animated) display time determined by "(Custom Non-Animated Boot Logo display time) = (Total Boot Time) - (Animated Boot Logo Time)"?

I remember a while back some people wishing to see their custom non-animated boot logos display longer. Could a simple work around be to have a real short animated logo? Then someone could make a generic "Powered by....." or "Brought to you by..." animated logo followed by "Ford Motor Company" "Honda" etc or "Insert favorite logo here"...?

Or am I misunderstanding this?

Didn't I read that you scrapped your Integra recently? Isn't that why you were getting into that Civic with an Integra motor?

Bruno

Don't know. Mark could probaby answer that one...

Yeah like I said I totalled her although it was a ITR chassis I had blown the motor a couple years ago and didnt have the money to replace it with a real B18C5 so I replaced it with a B18B and the turbo I blew the ITR with. So yeah but I like this site so much that I just kinda stayed yeah the VX civic hatch is slow and ugly right now but the shop just got my B18C1 engine in and they are prepping it for the swap, cant wait.

just thought i'd reiterate that i hate you for building my car. =P

The boot animation plays, for as long as it wants to play.

Next, the custom logo, if any, is put on the display, where it remains until overwritten by player software starting up.

If the animation takes too long -- meaning that the player software is starting up by the time the animation finishes -- then the custom logo will just appear to blink on and then off again.

-ml

Mark,

cool, that is what I though. So... if the boot-up animation was really short, the static boot logo would stay up longer correct? There were a few wishes a while back to have the static logo stay up longer. I assume fewer people will want this now that they can make their own animations.. but I thought we could have an animated "powered by" followed by a static car company logo or something (or linux etc.)

Again, the simplest way to do what you want, is to just tuck the custom logo into the tail end of the animation, and then have it repeat for a few frames.

-ml

Maybe Ill just sell her to ya when I graduate from college and get myself another ITR.

Thanks for the info Mark! I was just wondering about why my boot logo was only flashing for a second. Looks like I'll have to do some modifications to the boot logo to make it shorter.

hehe, that might actually work. When are you graduating.

I feel like a dork asking, but what are the procedures for uploading the animation using logo editor or Jemplode and do you upload the .raw file or the gif. Definitely a newbie, please be gentle.

We could REALLY use a kind soul to offer a few Jemplode FAQ entries... even installing the program isn't 100% straight forward from the web-site. I'd do it, but I don't even have Jemplode installed yet.

In one of these 5000 message threads, there is a simple couple steps to upload an animation w/ jEmplode that I wrote (I think for Laura, maybe??). I'll try to track it down and put it into the FAQ section on jempeg.org.

Hmm.. i never saw anything after I posted but is there anyways do to a random boot animation?

-Greg

Didn't write it for me but I answered that I'm glad you did because I was able to do it with the nice simple instructions. I can find it if you can't.

Not currently, sorry...

Mike

You could be the first to implement random animations:

Just write a userland program to randomly choose among animation files in a subdirectory (of your choosing) on the player's hard drive, and then write that animation to flash using aniwrite (source/binary available on the Hijack site).

Then just have the initscripts run your random chooser at boot time, to set up the random animation for NEXT TIME.

Cheers

I must be retarded. Can someone please tell me where on the riocar.org site the hijack animation logos are?? I can't seem find them anywhere, and dying to upload one of them to my player, some of them look so awesome!
thanks!!
Brian

I don't think they're there yet, but if you can see them here, you can put them on your Empeg. Just download the .gif or .raw, open it in the latest version of Jemplode, and upload away.

Alex

What is everyone using to create the boot animations, you can't all be doing this frame by frame.. so far what is the best bet to use? i tried doing flash to export gif but that looks TERRIBLE. any thoughts?

Except the glint is going the wrong way. It should go from right to left on his right lens to match the direction in which he turns around...

Just geekin' out...

you can't all be doing this frame by frame..

Why not? I did. Paint Shop Pro was all I used. That was for all three animations I've done: The original empeg and Rio animations, and the original Risky Tux (without the underwear).

It's not that hard. It's only a couple dozen frames. Learning how to use the selection and move/cut/paste features of your image editor is the trick.

yah i used imageready and it worked out better.

well i have 2 animations now, one is mine the other is a friend's idea.. here they come oh yah mine is regarding planes and crashing, so if you are afraid of that or politically sensitive, don't look at it.

here is another for you death metal rocking satanic rednecks

that reminds me of an old atari game for some reason

A close inspection of that file reveals that its grayscales are not the same as the limited colors available on the empeg screen. This will make some of the gray shades in the anti-aliased sections look different when you get it into the player.

Just so you know ahead of time.

Tom, does the Riocar site know how to refuse the animated gifs based on color depth, too?

yah i actually noticed it looks better on the player.. how can i figure out which of the greyscales the empeg supports? So it is an exact match and so i don't get rejected when i do one that i actually want up on the riocar site.. also i have no problem posting the psd of them for assistance sake either.

how can i figure out which of the greyscales the empeg supports?

Draw a picture in logoeditor using each of the four colors. Copy that image to the clipboard and paste it into your image-editing software as a new image.

Your image-editing software should have the ability to create a palette based on the colors in this new image. If you can't create a palette of four colors, create one with 16 colors where 13 of the colors are just black.

Then use this palette for all of your color reduction work.

Tom, does the Riocar site know how to refuse the animated gifs based on color depth, too?

No, because it dosen't use them. My early hack for animated logos did, alongside the raw for download. But now, the site only accepts .raw files, and assumes that they came from Jemplode. Since that takes care of the color issue, I don't have to worry about it on the site.

Riiiiight... I forgot it took .RAWs. Good point.

/me goes to give self a dope slap.

tux dies - i abused your animation

and the gif

Hey Rockstar, thanks
That was pretty cool. I like the exit wound.
It kind of reminds me of South Park and Kenny

Oh yeah, and I think it's about time somebody kacked the little b@#$%^d. Since I've been trying to teach myself Linux I've wanted to many times.

lol, i heard requests to knock off tux, so i figured i would give it a shot.. it is too long tho, i need to see how i can shorten it and rework the targeting animation too.

GLAD SOMEONE liked it

My girlfriend felt like she lost a friend when I added a custom animation...Gotta show her the sliding tux though..She'll love it..

First attempt...Call it Penguin Powered Posting raw first and then will post gif...

Anyone have suggestions or comments, please share...

-Steve

Above posted as .txt. When downloading, rename to .raw

Here's the animated gif..

that's cool, good job, make sure you submit it to riocar.org for the archives

the footsteps are great

the footsteps are great

I think they're supposed to be bullet holes.

ahhh crap. those gif's are small and i'm stoned.

Hmm, maybe I need to work on it a little more...make the holes a little more obvious..

My entry.... but it doesn' t say "HiJAck" so I'm already disqualified!

I'm not much of an animator. This was done with Microsoft Paint!

Alright, alright, I know I am a bit late to the whole animation contest thing,
but here's my creation, I know it's personalized, so none of you will probably use it, but it works for me.
and if you have an accord, feel free to use frames from it...

...here's the .psd I used, in case anyone finds it handy...

pretty cool man, make sure you upload it @ riocar.org

The GIF image you posted here to the BBS has too many shades of gray for the empeg display. Those will be posterized down to just two shades of gray when you attempt to put it into the animation editor.

I figured as much, but it looks great on the empeg, so that good for me,
btw....
is there a way in photoshop to set the "usable" colors
So that only the appropriate colors are use when dawing?
I just can't seem to get that figured out....

I don't know how to do it in photoshop. I think that program does an awful job of handling palletized images. I use Paint Shop Pro which allows you to create your own palette from scratch. Values for the palette are in the FAQ.

grassyass.

you can make your own pallete in photoshop as well, from scratch.. what i am trying to figure out is how to get photoshop to allow me to let it interpret the pallette and adjust the images.

Anyone else think they were seeing marijuana leaves instead of holes and a bong instead of a gun the first time they saw this.... I was woundering till i saw it go by a few times..... and no im not a druggie. hehe

-Greg

Hey, what do you want for a first animation....And the image is a little small...I guess I maybe, if really tired, could see the leaves and bong... HAHA

Tony, I think that your Logo Editor does a great job at converting images to the correct pallet. It may not turn out the way I always want, but at least I KNOW anything I paste into there and then copy out will be correct. I pass any logo.raw's through your program before I save as a .raw. (anyone else notice that if you save a .raw with less the 4 colors, it disregards what colors you have chosen and assigns its own? I think I know what it does this, but it is odd. ie, any 2 color logo will ALWAYS be black and white even if you pasted in grey1 and black. So any logo.raw you save MUST have at least 1 pixel of white. Can be a pain.)

if u make the platelet in photoshop in converts it perfectly to the pixel the same as paint shop pro and the logo editor, i use image ready for my animations and dose a great job of converting all the frams to the 4 color display.

Could someone translate that into English for us?

I think it had something to do with blood cells.

LOL