[ Solved ]First frame of animation stays in background

[thomas_oak]

I have a repeating animation which is leaving the first frame permanently behind the image. It is such a simple piece of code that I am quite stumped as to what might be causing it.

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image william_animation:
    "william_anim1/will_anim1_01.png"
    0.1
    "william_anim1/will_anim1_02.png"
    0.1
    "william_anim1/will_anim1_03.png"
    .
    .
    "william_anim1/will_anim1_32.png"
    0.1
    "william_anim1/will_anim1_33.png"
    0.1
    repeat    
    

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    scene black
    show william_animation with Dissolve(2.0)

Have I always been doing something wrong and just not noticed it before?

[isobellesophia]

I have a repeating animation which is leaving the first frame permanently behind the image. It is such a simple piece of code that I am quite stumped as to what might be causing it.

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image william_animation:
    "william_anim1/will_anim1_01.png"
    0.1
    "william_anim1/will_anim1_02.png"
    0.1
    "william_anim1/will_anim1_03.png"
    .
    .
    "william_anim1/will_anim1_32.png"
    0.1
    "william_anim1/will_anim1_33.png"
    0.1
    repeat    
    

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    scene black
    show william_animation with Dissolve(2.0)

Have I always been doing something wrong and just not noticed it before?

How about like this? Im not good at ATL's.

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image william_animation:
    "william_anim1/will_anim1_01.png"
    pause 0.1
    "william_anim1/will_anim1_02.png"
    pause 0.1
    "william_anim1/will_anim1_03.png"
    pause 0.1
    "william_anim1/will_anim1_32.png"
    pause 0.1
    "william_anim1/will_anim1_33.png"
    pause 0.1
    repeat    
    

Or

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image william_animation:
    "will_anim1_01.png"
    pause 0.1
    "will_anim1_02.png"
    pause 0.1
    "will_anim1_03.png"
    pause 0.1
    "will_anim1_32.png"
    pause 0.1
    "will_anim1_33.png"
    pause 0.1
    repeat    
    

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label start:
    scene black
    show william_animation with dissolve

[thomas_oak]

Unfortunately it is just the same. Thank you though

[isobellesophia]

Unfortunately it is just the same. Thank you though

Maybe this will help you..

viewtopic.php?t=16604#p216356

[papillon]

2.0 is a fairly slow dissolve. Do you still get strange behavior if you don't have a dissolve involved?

A random bit of graphic being stuck in many engines happens because you haven't properly cleared the background first. Is 'black' correctly defined?

(Don't take my suggestions as super expert coder advice, I spend most of my time writing text and forget half the code when I'm not actively working on it, so while I can usually figure things out if I have the actual code right in front of me to tinker with, I can still miss the obvious when I'm staring at a code snippet!)

[thomas_oak]

Thanks Papillion

After four hours of going mad with this, I finally worked out what was causing it. And I feel stupid. I had postworked all 33 frames to remove blemishes and was working close up. I didn't realise I had frame 1 as a layer behind all the images. So I was frantically trying to find out why it was happening and it was actually there in the images themselves. What a waste of time.