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# Alright Toasty? How on earth does one animate a background like that?
I tried all sorts and still looks ropey...
Any tips will be much appreciated.
:D
(, Thu 31 Jul 2008, 14:49, archived)
# with great difficulty
I would say you want 3 frames that clearly show a tree moving back before reaching the location of the 1st one on frame 4.
Do this for both sides but offset.

The problem you have here is that there are too many trees to deal with. Might be easiest to start without any trees, make one on a seperate layer and duplicate that. People aren't going to notice that they are the same tree.
(, Thu 31 Jul 2008, 14:54, archived)
# You star!
Top tip. Thanks very much.
(, Thu 31 Jul 2008, 14:55, archived)
# make a few larger background copies and duplicate them all
then for each frame, show 2 backgrounds, 1/2 the loop length apart.
Fade the top bg layer out from 100% to 0% over the length of the loop.

or something like that!
(, Thu 31 Jul 2008, 15:06, archived)
# Hurry . . .
there's no end to it !
(, Thu 31 Jul 2008, 15:13, archived)
# It looks pretty good to me
The brain seems to compensate for any "ropeyness", in that it assumes the background is supposed to be moving forwards (or sometimes backwards!)

(, Thu 31 Jul 2008, 14:59, archived)
# You're too kind, but every bit a gentleman.
Thank you.
:D
(, Thu 31 Jul 2008, 15:04, archived)