For all the people out there that want to animate, here you go!
programs we will need:
-Bannedstory (dont download...just go to [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] and click start simulator)
-Agif (reccomended because its free, but any other frame by fame program works. download at Active GIF Creator)
-Paint (highly reccommended as most ppl have it. any other photo editer might work)
ok so first go to bannedstory and make a character.
now press "prnt scrn" and go to paint. now press CTRL + V, and you will see a screenshot of your computer. use the box selection (top right corner of toolbar) to get rid of everything but the picture of character. now to make the sizes accurate use the box selection to move the picture of character to top left corner. now change the size( make the X the same as Y, Example:400x400).move the picture of character to bottom right of the box. now go back to bannedstory and click start to make a new character.however dont do anything yet. go to char config. Under where it says custom skin color grab the bar with the letter "A" next to it and bring it to the far left.your guy should be invisable. now make him equip a guitar (any color) so basically you see a floating guitar. now press "prnt scrn" and go to paint and press CTRL + V. now move the screenshot so you can see character, then get rid of everything but character and guitar.still on paint, go to Image and uncheck draw Opaque. now use the box selection to move the guitar over the characters arms/hands. now go to bannedstory and press start again but dont do anything to the character but give him the gloves you want to be playing the guitar. now again "prnt scrn" then to paint and CTRL + V. now get rid of everything but 1 hand on the screenshot, the guitar, and the character. now save it as anything, as we need it for multiple frames. now grab the hand with the box selection and press CTRL + C then CTRL + V and you should now have 2 hands. place them on the guitar and save it as something like "frame 1". now open the thing u saved before (has the hand guitar and character) and CTRL+ C and CTRL + V the hand again. this time place them on a different spot on guitar, and save it as something like "frame 2". continue doing this untill u got the right amount of frames. make sure they are all the same size (X same as Y, i used 400x400)and that the character with guitar and hands on it (your frames) are in the bottom right. now on AGIF click the paper with a + on it and make it the size the picture is. leave it how it is other than that (change picture size). now click ok. go to paint and put a box selection over your whole picture, and press CTRL + C. now go to AGIF and press CTRL + V. again press the paper with a + on it and same size. this time CTTRL + C then CTRL + V the next frame. repeat till done. now set the delays ( i use 15) then click animate! save your GIF if wanted!
to see my animation (not as good as yours i bet) go to ImageShack - Hosting :: maplestoryguitaranimatiwt2.gif please press the thanks button because i took a long time to make this! my video tutorial (thank me for this too) at: [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
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Last edited by blbl; 01-18-2008 at 03:06 AM.
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to make the hands look like their going so fast theyre on fire, go to cash shop items and wepons other (i think) and look for the flaming hand thing. then use the animations as frames in AGIF.
and by the way, these programs are ultimately reccommended as they are, in fact, FREE!
Maplestory Guitar Animation Tutorial 
Linear Mode
