Flipping Sword
 

Seems I got the flipping sword glitch to be visible to myself so I decided to make my first gif. Hope it came out well. Here it is...

http://i30.tinypic.com/2l9gj0g.gif

Very nice... is that just a bunch of screen shots in a slide???

Neat!

I would say from the way it displays, yes.

No, I recorded it. What you're seeing is my lag although I put it on high quality and full screen just for this.

Well looking at the background and the sky you can see it is multiple screen shots.
If you were lagging wouldnt those clouds stop with you???

I looped it by getting my guy back to the same position so it looks endless but the sky was too difficult to do that with. Maybe I'll redo it in a more loop friendly environment but I liked the background ;)

Ok, my mistake. What gif application you using?
Seems it needs an optimizer of sorts.

Plus, the size is part of the problem, should resize it smaller.
The Gif's format is not designed for large animations.

I wouldnt worry about 'quality' too much, the quality is not coming through on the final gif, and may help smooth your capture down if turned down.
Smooth is usually better in animation than 'sharp/clear'.

How ever you did it, Nice........
Far beyond my computer skills!!!

I'm trying the trial of Camtasia. And thanks for the tip, I'm going to try that now.

Just select the area you want to record, cut out bits and upload. Thanks though :)

Camtasia is good for video capture, but its gif creation abilities will leave a bit to be desired, this would be an alternate output for it, and not what it was really designed for. I would save the video capped by Camtasia (in avi format) and then use another application to edit the avi, clean up/crop what you want and then save as GIF (hoping such a utility would have an optimizer). An optimizer will take out duplicated data. For example each frame of your animation may have the sky, the moon, the mountain behind, etc. But these items dont change, why have them in each frame? An optimizer would remove parts of frame that were redundant smoothing out the animation, and making the final file smaller. :)

Ouch... Surprised you didn't cut yer own hand off matey. XD Next stop, sword swollowing. Then grenade swollowing -shudders-.