Spinning Ball Animated Wheel Images

[Mike_da_Spike]

Really, really, really nice works @scutters !
Now I can make some animated underlays like these:

 

Or curved for cabinet mode :

Thanks you, thank you, thank you !

 

[scutters]

For anyone having issues building larger apng files with the image to spinball app, replace the apngasm.exe file in the apps Resources folder with this version;

apngasm64.zipFetching info...

(Note - this is probably only needed if you are using a 4k underlay image and with a lot of animation frames, which in turn uses a lot of memory)

Thanks @Mike_da_Spike

I'll update the copy in the main download in the next app update

[Draco1962]

FEATURE REQUEST: Allow for a still image on the background instead of a background color for source image to spin around.

[scutters]

  On 3/20/2025 at 5:39 PM, Draco1962 said:

FEATURE REQUEST: Allow for a still image on the background instead of a background color for source image to spin around.

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Can you give more info...  you might be able to do something like that now, select an image to spin that has transparency, don't select a background colour, and then select 'Overlay apng in image' (set at pos 0,0 and use an image sized at 1000x1000) - is that what you mean, or did you want the background image sphere'ised as well but just not rotating?

[Draco1962]

Using my logo as an example, it would serve as the static background.

 

It could be framed by the Tarcisio overlay - 

The text I would like to have it rotate across the logo image -

So the only image that would be spinning is the text image (or whatever image anyone wants to use).

[scutters]

Yeah, it's a bit tricky to get the sizing right for the background.. but the 'Overlay apng in image' can just about do it! 

I resized and changed the centring of the logo image to;

And then used these settings;

(Note - the background / logo image would need resizing again if using the Tarcisio overlay - but you can try with different sizes [add more transparent border / shrink the logo down] and then use the frame images in the app Temp folder to dial in the exact size & location you want, it's maybe not ideal but it will work)

[Draco1962]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing the results and settings! 

I can see some new images without the Tarcisio framing, such as for a console image with the text logo spinning around it... hmmm!

[scutters]

  On 3/21/2025 at 8:49 PM, Draco1962 said:

Awesome! Thanks for sharing the results and settings! 

I can see some new images without the Tarcisio framing, such as for a console image with the text logo spinning around it... hmmm!

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No problem. The one thing it won't do is show the reverse of the spinning logo if you use a background image where the non transparent area is smaller than the spinning logos diameter. That would be tricky to do and involve adding a new layer to the processing, or checking pixel argb values before drawing the spinning logo on top of them (or not for the logo 'reverse')..  or something like that, and i'd guess the image processing would be a lot slower as a result too.

[Draco1962]

  On 3/21/2025 at 10:07 PM, scutters said:

No problem. The one thing it won't do is show the reverse of the spinning logo if you use a background image where the non transparent area is smaller than the spinning logos diameter. That would be tricky to do and involve adding a new layer to the processing, or checking pixel argb values before drawing the spinning logo on top of them (or not for the logo 'reverse')..  or something like that, and i'd guess the image processing would be a lot slower as a result too.

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Expected and understood.