Extra Hints And tips for Animating with fire pro.

1) Don't use the whole Arena, just cut a small part of it out, and perform your move in that space. If you look at my scaffold animations, it's not the whole darn arena, just the scaffold and part of the ring.

2) Watch the Feet. If you want to make a smooth animation, make your first screen, then take the screen you want for your 2nd frame, and place it in the first frame. Match up the feet. Then, right down the pixel # on a piece of paper (the pixel #'s are in the lower left hand corner in psp when you paste). That way, your people will stay in place.

3) THINK   If you're making an animation where a HUGE fall is taking place, and the person falling is looking like he's standing on the ground, you're not thinking realistically. Watch how the game makes a person fall, don't float people over to a table.

4)  Don't Be a Tough Guy  You can't play the game and take screenshots at the same time! Let the computer kick your ass! And have  your fingers on the enter and F1 buttons, and take pictures deep into the match, as soon as he grapples you, because it's usually a 5 star move.

5) Simple Questions- Try and figure these out before you ask me on aim or on the boards. Most of the time, you can figure it out in less time than it takes to bother me, and you'll have more knowledge learning it on your own.

6) Viewing Animations - Animations are a lot slower online, and some get distorted. When they are done loading, right click them and click save picture as.. Then download it and view it in animation shop for full effect! Do this before you rate an animation!

7) Starting Out Go into options and take shadows and the clock off. This just makes sense. 

8) Special Guest Referee Also, you might want to take a picture of the ref, and edit him with a wrestler's face or something. A special guest referee will always make your animation stand out from any others.

9) Fire?  To add fire To your animations,  you need the Eye Candy plug in. I can't tell you where to find this, because I don't know. Find it and crack it for full use.

10) Responding to animations Here's a pet peeve of mine, if you see a good animation, and say "AWESOME" or "SICK". Offer advice, or tell the person what you thought was the best part of the animation. However, don't be an A-hole.

11) Animations are boring! Sometimes, if you're stumped with ideas, what you need to do, is think outside the box. Make a weapon, ring, or still ( one picture with lots of action in it ). You might be able to do new things with the new props you make.

12) HUGE!! This comes from Bardock 125, who has a way to get EVERY FRAME YOU WANT without pressing f1 and enter all the time.

Bardock125: Push F1, You will see "MOVE THIS WINDOW" at the bottom of the list. If you hit "INCR FRAME ONLY" you will go to the next frame without leaving the menu. When you see the frame(s) you want to save hit enter on "SNANPSHOT/INCR FRM" witch will take a snapshot & goto the next frame without leaving the menu. And if you just do that insted of F1 Enter, F1 Enter, F1 Enter, F1 Enter, you will get all the frames you want without get those stupid doubles.

More tips coming soon once I think of them

Training

How-To

Until then, Go HERE for more guides that teach you how to make weapons and other things!