[pygame] Re: Help with Imagemagick

["David Mikesell" <dave_mikesell@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Got it to work by converting the image to GIF...

On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 10:45:20 -0500, "David Mikesell"
<dave_mikesell@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> I finally got around to downloading Imagemagick and am now creating
> spritesheets for my game.   I would like to eliminate PaintShopPro from
> my workflow, however, as all I do with it is set the background
> transparency on the images.   Current workflow is as follows:
> 
> - animate individual PNG frames in Blender
> - create PNG filmstrip with Imagemagick "montage" command
> - set background transparency of filmstrip with PSP (palette
> transparency)
> 
> I've tried various montage switches for transparency, background, etc.,
> I've tried converting to a Palette image, but I'm hacking now.   I
> really don't know that much about image formats, I just knew how to get
> this to work in PSP and would like to get that same result from IM's
> command line.   Below is a link to one of the source frames from
> Blender, as well as a link to it's description generated from the IM
> "identify -verbose" command.   Can anyone show me an Imagemagick command
> line that will set the background transparency? 
> 
> http://davemikesell.com/starship_explosion0020.png
> http://davemikesell.com/imagedesc.txt