bootsplash and animations

i have managed to change the background image for bootsplash but im having trouble adding animations to it

the syntax i am using in the bootsplash.cfg is

trigger “httpd2” play apache2.mng

is this correct?
also is there anything special i need to do to the animation, i have tried converting png files to mng files using imagemagick, i have also tried using gimp to save a single frame image as a .mng file

This doesn’t work anymore with the recent bootsplash. I made a lot of splash screen myself on KDE-look.org and tried to make one with animations but they just don’t show up or they do show up but you can’t controll where they need to be positioned or how to make them disappear.

This worked nice in suse 7.3 but since then I’ve never seen them anymore, except the progress bar that you can easily replace by a colored square.

If you find the answer I would really like to know because I’m also interested in making a nice splash

i have managed to get an animation to display a single frame, but as yet i have been unable to get the image to animate

to convert images into an animation i hmade 4 images called blank.png, test1.png, test2.png, test3.png

in a terminal in the folder i saved them i ran

convert
-comment “id hardware nodelta delay 0” blank.png +comment
-comment “id test” test1.png +comment
-comment “nodelta delay 0” blank.png +comment
-comment “id second” test2.png +comment
-comment “nodelta delay 0” blank.png +comment
-comment “id third” test3.png +comment
-comment “id blank refresh stop” blank.png
test.mng

>>>Note<<<
i created the png images using gimp, and it only worked when the image was created without the “created by gimp” comment in the file (i had to remove this manually when createing the new file using the advanced options)

the part inside the " is the comment, you need at least one frame with a comment like
id test
to be able to select the start frame of the animation (in this case it is labelled test)

this creates a mng animataion called test.mng
to show this on boot add this line to your .cfg file

mnganim logo2 /etc/bootsplash/themes/test/images/test.mng initframe test silent center 700 500

logo2 is the name you intend to use for this snimation in the rest of the config file

/etc/bootsplash/themes/test/images/test.mng should be replaced with the path to the mng file

initframe test tells it that the first fram is labelled test

silent must tell it wether to show itself in either silent or verbose mode

center 700 500 is the position to display the animation

i havent been able to get this animation to animate during boot, even though i can run through it using imagemagick (the animate command) and it plays ok

the bootsplash website says this

trigger “rlchange 3” play text devices

tells the system to play starting from id “devices” in the mng animation with id “text”.

i have tried variants of this to get the image to animate, but with no successs

i have tried the following

trigger “rlchange 3” play logo2 third

trigger “apache” play logo2 second
trigger “apache2” play logo2 third
trigger “httpd” play logo2 second
trigger “httpd2” play logo2 third
trigger “gdm” play logo2 second

anyone have any suggestions of how to get this working?

You should obtain the suse 7.3 bootsplash and analyse the mng and script file.

That’s what I did but like I said, i was able to start the animation but could not stop it and the colors were also pretty screwed up.

i have managed to find a download link for the 7.3 bootsplash scrren (ftp://ftp.gmd.de/ftp.suse.com/people/stepan/bootsplash/rpm-sources/bootsplash-theme-SuSE-classic/Theme-SuSE-7.3.tar.bz2), and its no help at all, the whole way bootsplash works has changed (the animations.cfg file has been absorbed by the main config file, as well as the syntax for animating images has changed totally)