Hacking Share your Bootanimations Here!

[ShroomKing]

In case you missed it, a few weeks ago @SKGleba released vita-bootanim a tool to convert GIFs to boot animations for enso.
I thought it would be nice to have a thread where people can download and share animations, First one i made is Chibi Naoto dancing(Looks a lot brighter on video cause my phone wouldn't focus):


I'm curious what kind of animations you guys come up with. Please share them here!

 

[ilike2game]

I can't get my boot animation to convert right, I run mkanim and it converts the gif and generates a boot.rcf, but when I install it it just displays the generic campfire one, could you help me figure out what I'm doing wrong or convert a gif for me?

 

[ShroomKing]

I can't get my boot animation to convert right, I run mkanim and it converts the gif and generates a boot.rcf, but when I install it it just displays the generic campfire one, could you help me figure out what I'm doing wrong or convert a gif for me?

I'm not sure what went wrong for you so just make sure you did all of this:
1. Rename GIF to boot_animation.gif
2. Cd to the folder with the GIF
3. Run mkanim convert command
4. Copy boot.rcf to ur0:/tai/

But yeah upload your GIF and i'll give it a try if it still doesn't work.

 

[ilike2game]

Yeah I've tried like 5 different gifs now with a bunch of different settings and they all just turn into that generic campfire one somehow, it's like it's not reading the boot.rcf, idk but yeah here's the gif if you could convert so I can see if that works that'd be super rad.

 

[ilike2game]

ok wait nvm I figured it out, it won't load the boot.rcf from ur0/tai so I just went and replaced the default boot animation in the app folder and that seems to work.

 

[ilike2game]

ok wait nvm I figured it out, it won't load the boot.rcf from ur0/tai so I just went and replaced the default boot animation in the app folder and that seems to work.

although whenever i try to loop the animation it gets stuck on the loop.

 

[ShroomKing]

although whenever i try to loop the animation it gets stuck on the loop.

Looping your gif worked for me, try these settings: -width 960 -height 544 -loop -cache_fb -wipe_cache -wait_vblank -sram -priority 1

 

[ilike2game]

Looping your gif worked for me, try these settings: -width 960 -height 544 -loop -cache_fb -wipe_cache -wait_vblank -sram -priority 1

ahh thanks the "priority 1" seems to fix it.

 

[ShroomKing]

I was bored so i put some skill points in photoshop and made this pretty simple Enso -> PS Vita Logo fade animation:

Theres 3 variations, one with the PSVITA text only, one with PS logo only and one with both.

 

[JohnLikesTweaking]

How did you make the "boot.rcf"? Can you tell me? I searched the whole internet, but doesn't seems to find a way

 

[_Shmubby]

Also need help in converting my gif to a .rcf file. I can't seem to download gzip properly, which results in it not being check properly, so having someone convert it for me is the last thing I'll try, before installing linux to be able to run the code. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

 

[PacBunnyXV07]

Heres a PS1 Classic Boot Screen gif with a backdrop, if you manage to convery it to a rcf please tell me.

 

[binkinator]

Heres a PS1 Classic Boot Screen gif with a backdrop, if you manage to convery it to a rcf please tell me.

I think I gotchu over here:

https://gbatemp.net/threads/vita-bootanim-help.615047/post-9874653

 

[SAORIxMEGUMIN]

Anyone know why this is happening? I use imagemagick all the time for other things so I know it is installed. I installed gzip with the installer and the exe is in the same folder as mkanim.exe. I even set an environment path for gzip yet it isn't recognized as a command.

gzip
gzip: C:\Program: No such file or directory
gzip: Files: No such file or directory
gzip: (x86)\GnuWin32\bin: No such file or directory

Thing is, I manually pointed to the directory by browsing files so it definitely exists and it definitely is the spot where it should be.

converting boot_animation.gif to a supported gif type...
ERROR: do you have ImageMagick and GZIP installed?
https://download.imagemagick.org/ImageMagick/download/binaries/ImageMagick-7.1.0-4-Q8-x64-dll.exe
- install the 'legacy convert' too
extracting gif frames...
converting boot_animation.gif to a supported gif type...
extracting gif frames...
converting frames to RGBA...
compressing frames...
creating the boot animation [HEADER]...
creating the boot animation [BODY]...
CHECK ERROR: An error occured, do you have GZIP installed?
all done!

What I gather is gzip doesn't like the spaces in the file name, what do you do if the folder has spaces? I tried replacing the spaces with underscores and that did nothing.

I also tried setting the path this way

%programfiles(x86)%\GnuWin32\bin

 

[binkinator]

Anyone know why this is happening? I use imagemagick all the time for other things so I know it is installed. I installed gzip with the installer and the exe is in the same folder as mkanim.exe. I even set an environment path for gzip yet it isn't recognized as a command.

gzip
gzip: C:\Program: No such file or directory
gzip: Files: No such file or directory
gzip: (x86)\GnuWin32\bin: No such file or directory

Thing is, I manually pointed to the directory by browsing files so it definitely exists and it definitely is the spot where it should be.

converting boot_animation.gif to a supported gif type...
ERROR: do you have ImageMagick and GZIP installed?
https://download.imagemagick.org/ImageMagick/download/binaries/ImageMagick-7.1.0-4-Q8-x64-dll.exe
- install the 'legacy convert' too
extracting gif frames...
converting boot_animation.gif to a supported gif type...
extracting gif frames...
converting frames to RGBA...
compressing frames...
creating the boot animation [HEADER]...
creating the boot animation [BODY]...
CHECK ERROR: An error occured, do you have GZIP installed?
all done!

What I gather is gzip doesn't like the spaces in the file name, what do you do if the folder has spaces? I tried replacing the spaces with underscores and that did nothing.

I also tried setting the path this way

%programfiles(x86)%\GnuWin32\bin

put the entire path in double quotes like this:

‘’C:\Program Files(x86)\GnuWin32\bin”

 

[SAORIxMEGUMIN]

put the entire path in double quotes like this:

‘’C:\Program Files\(x86)\GnuWin32\bin”

same error after doing that

 

[binkinator]

same error after doing that

please post a screenshot of your PATH

 

[SAORIxMEGUMIN]

I copied your line exactly and entered it though when i hit ok it reverted with the spaces.

It now shows this error
C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin>gzip
gzip: æÆC:\Program: No such file or directory
gzip: Files\(x86)\GnuWin32\binö: No such file or directory

 

[binkinator]

I copied your line exactly and entered it though when i hit ok it reverted with the spaces.

It now shows this error
C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin>gzip
gzip: æÆC:\Program: No such file or directory
gzip: Files\(x86)\GnuWin32\binö: No such file or directory

Right…delete that.

you should be adding this to the end of the already existing PATH variable…not creating a new gzip variable.

 

[SAORIxMEGUMIN]

Right…delete that.

you should be adding this to the end of the already existing PATH variable…not creating a new gzip variable.

put the entire path in double quotes like this:

‘’C:\Program Files\(x86)\GnuWin32\bin”

like this?
Variable Name:
gzip

Variable Value:
%programfiles(x86)%\GnuWin32\bin‘’C:\Program Files\(x86)\GnuWin32\bin”