GIF Animations for D20 Pro

NIce addition
I have been using a few and its actually pretty cool.
In fact I started looking at some of my spell effect icons i use in the game and guess what.... using animated gifs is so much cooler

take a look at a few
Cloud of Daggers


and
Fireball

 

I, personally, don't use any of the "draw tools" (except doors) during combat - as I have a bad habit of accidentally overwriting (or moving) my entire map. Instead, I do things like make a monster called "trap door" and use the appropriate "picture" for the "creature" ...

I can see doing something similar for these spell effects.

Another thing one could do, is to assign effects to "Items" - give items to mobs - have mobs drop items (to trigger effects).

While I often have mobs "drop loot" that can be visualized on the screen - one could just as easily "drop spell effects" (using an invisible creature if desired); and could use the same creature to pick the effects up (one they expired)/

 

Thurgien,

Heres what I do for spell effects for example a fir ball

I create a creature called fireball and add the gif image and leave in my inventory of creatures.

When the wizard decides to throw that firball spell he creates the red square and places it on the board, this genrates the request to the dm "is it ok to place the square" before i hit yes (the green arrow) i simply drag the fireball effect place it over the square and hit no (the red x) and hit refresh.

What happens is on the dm screen the monsters get covered with the fireball but on the players screen the firwball appears under the monster tiles and it looks like the wizard hit them with a fireball. By the time i have done this the request comes from the player to finish the attack or effects dialague I finish these and then hit "end turn" and delete the monster (spell effect) from my screen and it updates the players showing the effect as completed and is gone.

It does take a few minutes to get the hang of it but I can honestly say using creatures as secret doors, traps and spell effects is really very easy and it gives the game a differant flair, and quite honestly the players and i enjoy it.
There is definitely no questions about when a fireball hits an ally or not.

 

How are you guys using the Gifs? as charcter or monster images?

 

I create monster files and create the spell effects like i would a trap file

 

Just put the .gif file into the res ctr folder and you can use anitmated or regular .gif files.

 

I have pulled out some Baldur's Gate Gifs. I am having no trouble implementing them, but I am not seeing the animation function on the map. I sthis just due to me seeing the GM side, and the players see it, or am I doing something wrong? I used the GIF as an image for a created monster.

 

These are awesome! Snagging!