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Quote from XxDarkMiragexX

What if I want my animation to pause at the beginning when my animation is finished? I have a blaze rod glowing and I want it to pause at the beginning before it starts glowing again.

You can set the frametime of the frame you want it to pause on to a really long duration. For example setting it to 200 would be a ten second pause.

Quote from CommanderNebula9

I give you my first born son.

Please don't. I don't like children.

Quote from CommanderNebula9

You are a god.

No, no I'm not.

Though you're still free to put money in my collection plate.

Quote from BrokenEye

Okay, I'm having a bit of trouble with the clock animation and I'm wondering if you could help. I know for a fact that there are exactly 34 frames in my clock.png. My clock.png.mcmeta is as follows:

-snip-

Any ideas?

Yes. There's no point in having your frames listed because the clock animation is key driven. That is, it's based on the time of day and must be laid out in a specific way in order for Minecraft to recognize it. The game literally doesn't know what to do with a list of frames since it won't consult that list, and as such just gives you an error textures.

Try this instead:

{ "animation": { } }

Much simpler and it won't confuse Minecraft.

Quote from Boelens

Hey there, I'm having an issue. I want to animate the color of my epearl but it's not quite working.

Any help as to why it's not working appreciated, thank you!

I'm guessing you got your information on how to set up that .mcmeta file from the Minecraft wiki, didn't you? The information on the Wiki is completely wrong. Please read my tutorial, it'll show you how to do it the right way.

Quote from Boelens

I did. I wasn't sure which one would be correct, but I figured the wiki gets updated more often. Why has nobody fixed this on the wiki? Trying yours now.
EDIT: It works! \o/
Thank you!

Glad you got it working!

I have no idea what goes on with the wiki, nor how to get in touch with whomever edits it. A LOT of the resource pack information on that site is garbage or misleading. Just because it gets updated frequently doesn't mean that the people doing the updating know what they're talking about. This is the unfortunate part of the whole "wiki" concept.

Regardless, I'm happy you figured it out.

Think we need a notice that states "as of XX/XX/XX the wikis ingo is trash don't follow it!"

Seen a lot of the misinformed people floating about.

Quote from SKVLLFAC3

How would I stack these frames on top of one another?

With an image editor.

I'm not sure what you're asking exactly. Look at the examples, they're pretty self-explanatory. If you know your way around your editing program of choice, you should be able to figure it out easily enough.

If you have a specific question, please ask. I'm not going to answer question about general image-editor use, though. There's plenty of tutorials regarding that available.

Quote from SKVLLFAC3

I know that, I used paint.net, but I cannot get them all perfectly aligned. I'm just asking for the best way to do this. What do you use to stack them?

This isn't a thread for general questions about image editors.

Personally I set up a grid and then align my frames to it. Most editors I've used have an option to snap to grid. How you do that in Paint.net... I have no idea.

Quote from SKVLLFAC3

Sorry about that, but what program do you use?

Excuse me if I am being irritating.

Ye olde Photoshop 7. (Not CS7... just 7)

Quote from darkshadox

is there a maximum length an animation can have? i want to make a matrix texture pack with code flowing over the standard textures with around 30s*20FPS->600 frames each 128x128; shorter animations would be less variety and would be more often the same as the block adjacent to it

Basically the maximum length is wherever Minecraft breaks down. It's different from user to user. I'd really recommend NOT making an animation over 60 frames, though, particularly at a higher resolution, unless it's the only animation in your pack.

I'm not sure what Minecraft's own limit is, but for the sake of whoever is going to use your pack I recommend trying to be easy on their system as much as you can.

Quote from CommanderNebula9

For what would anyone ever need a animation with that many frames?

For when you really, absolutely, positively MUST disguise the fact that your animation loops.

Either that or you want your block to display a cartoon at full quality for some reason.