Homebrew [RELEASE] BootAnim9 - Custom boot animations for your 3DS!

[Docmudkipz]

I can't get bootanim9 release v0.5 to stop looping the same image over and over. No matter how many times I press the select button it keeps looping the same image. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Is your payload set correctly? As in the arm9payload.bin

 

[jimmyleen]

Is your payload set correctly? As in the arm9payload.bin

Inside my anim folder I have the arm9payload.bin along with a 0 folder, inside the zero folder is my animation.

Edit: I took the bootanim9 arm9loaderhax.bin and renamed it to arm9payload.bin if that makes a difference.

 

[jimmyleen]

Since I can't stop bootanim9 from looping the animation image I will stop using it. I don't know why I can't exit out of bootanim9 but I am done.

 

[Wolfvak]

Inside my anim folder I have the arm9payload.bin along with a 0 folder, inside the zero folder is my animation.

Edit: I took the bootanim9 arm9loaderhax.bin and renamed it to arm9payload.bin if that makes a difference.

Dear lord. Of course it's going to, after your animation is played, it loads itself (a copy stored as arm9payload.bin) and starts playing the animation again.
Nevertheless, gg, I lol'd

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Since I can't stop bootanim9 from looping the animation image I will stop using it. I don't know why I can't exit out of bootanim9 but I am done.

You can do whatever you want, but waiting 20-30 minutes for an answer is a really short time btw. Nothing against you, but don't expect all devs to answer this quickly.
You know, we actually have lives, despite what most clichés dictate, and some applications don't have a huge following, like Luma, where you'll get an answer within seconds

 

[Earth97]

Hello, I've just set BootAnim9. my animation is too slow, how can I set the FPS? I know I should use a config file, but I don't know how to generate it. I'm using a pre-built animation (it's only anim, not anim + bottom_anim, I assume its speed can be improved).

 

[Docmudkipz]

Hello, I've just set BootAnim9. my animation is too slow, how can I set the FPS? I know I should use a config file, but I don't know how to generate it. I'm using a pre-built animation.

If it's from the animation threads or the ones included then the framerates are set appropriately to the animation. But the FPS is set in the config file in hex. I.e. 30 fps is 0x1E. I'd suggest creating your own, look for something at 30fps and it should look fine after putting it through the scripts.

 

[Wolfvak]

Hello, I've just set BootAnim9. my animation is too slow, how can I set the FPS? I know I should use a config file, but I don't know how to generate it. I'm using a pre-built animation (it's only anim, not anim + bottom_anim, I assume its speed can be improved).

Well, you create an empty file called 'config' and set the framerate in hex. For example, 15 fps = 0x0F fps, 30 fps = 0x1E fps, 10 fps = 0x0A fps, etc.

 

[Earth97]

Can I just create a .txt file, write 0x1E inside and change its extension?

 

[Wolfvak]

Can I just create a .txt file, write 0x1E inside and change its extension?

Nope, doesn't work that way. I made it like it is to keep the source clean and maintanable, without having to include too many string functions.
I may change it in the future, but I don't know :/

 

[Docmudkipz]

Can I just create a .txt file, write 0x1E inside and change its extension?

No, it's set at an offset in the file, putting 0x1E in a text file marks it as a string in unicode

 

[Earth97]

It would be way better for the end user, in my opinion. Not everyone uses an hex-editor (going to download one).

 

[Wolfvak]

No, it's set at an offset in the file, putting 0x1E in a text file marks it as a string in unicode

However, it'd load the character '0' which is hex 0x30 (I think) and it'd default to 30fps anyways, so you might as well @Earth97

To be perfectly honest, I've been thinking of shortening some file names in order to remove LFN support in FatFS and make it smaller. Would it be too much of a change?

 

[Earth97]

So, which extension should I choose for my file?

 

[Docmudkipz]

So, which extension should I choose for my file?

no extension

 

[Earth97]

Ok, the speed improved, however it's not as I want it. I've seen people arguing their animations were "too fast". Why? Can I go beyond 0x1E?
I'm using the PSX animation, downloaded from here.

 

[Docmudkipz]

Ok, the speed improved, however it's not as I want it. I've seen people arguing their animations were "too fast". Why? Can I go beyond 0x1E?
I'm using the PSX animation, downloaded from here.

It's just a limitation as of current, but that animation might just be at 15fps or something, like I said earlier your best bet is to find a video of the animation at 30fps then run it through the script at 30fps. The speed thing is just something with how the loading has improved

 

[pbanj]

Inside my anim folder I have the arm9payload.bin along with a 0 folder, inside the zero folder is my animation.

Edit: I took the bootanim9 arm9loaderhax.bin and renamed it to arm9payload.bin if that makes a difference.

Little tip, bootanim9's arm9loaderhax.bin goes on the root of your sd card. The arm9loadhax.bin for your cfw goes in the anim and gets renamed to arm9payload.bin. what you did means bootanim9 is just sitting there loading itself. This is not a fault of bootanim9 but a fault of the user using it and not reading properly.

 

[RednaxelaNnamtra]

Hey, I added Boot animation support for the topscreen to BootCTR9 with my last dev release, and to be able to ignore licensens changes I now rewrote it by myself.
My implementation in BootCTR9 uses the hardware timer to get the timing rigth and uses the arm11 to write it to the framebuffer, could some test if the timing is good? To use bootanimations set the splash to 4 and set the animation including its name as splash_image, and for frame configuration put a file with the same name as the animation + .cfw in the same folder. (example: animation.rgb -> animation.rgb.cfg).

If the timing is good I will clean my code up and push it to my repository, this way the timer could maybe be used in BootAnim9 too.

 

[Wolfvak]

Hey, I added Boot animation support for the topscreen to BootCTR9 with my last dev release, and to be able to ignore licensens changes I now rewrote it by myself.
My implementation in BootCTR9 uses the hardware timer to get the timing rigth and uses the arm11 to write it to the framebuffer, could some test if the timing is good? To use bootanimations set the splash to 4 and set the animation including its name as splash_image, and for frame configuration put a file with the same name as the animation + .cfw in the same folder. (example: animation.rgb -> animation.rgb.cfg).

If the timing is good I will clean my code up and push it to my repository, this way the timer could maybe be used in BootAnim9 too.

https://github.com/Wolfvak/BootAnim9/commit/d204ee588a58c344ffb7b4229639c40a8bf5de92

Don't worry about the licensing, we are here to make "some kickass homebrew!", not discuss over who wrote a line of code, right?
I'd like to see exactly how you implemented the hardware timer, because I'm sure the 3DS does have the watchdog timer, but I can't find it anywhere within your latest commit.

 

[RednaxelaNnamtra]

https://github.com/Wolfvak/BootAnim9/commit/d204ee588a58c344ffb7b4229639c40a8bf5de92

Don't worry about the licensing, we are here to make "some kickass homebrew!", not discuss over who wrote a line of code, right?
I'd like to see exactly how you implemented the hardware timer, because I'm sure the 3DS does have the watchdog timer, but I can't find it anywhere within your latest commit.

Yes, its not up yet, because I want to know if the timing is good and I also want to clean up the code a bit before pushing it, but by using the informations on 3dbrew it was not that hard to use it.