Also, for fun. Here is a comparison of the pros and cons of dumping Gifs with FEditor, Emblem Magic, and FEBuilder.
FEditor:
FEditor’s dumper, as provided above, dumps the entirety of all the battle animations at once. It usually includes anywhere from 6 to 12 gifs, or more. They’re divided into categories, like attack animation, dodge, critical, ranged, and of course, the ‘all animation’ version which just plays them all back to back.
Frame timings are perfect. They move at the exact speed they would play ingame.
When you export animations, you will not only export the gifs, but also the FEditor chopped up version, and a frame by frame version with a .txt script for easy insertion into other programs, such as FEXNA which should come out somewhere in 2028. A small downside is that if you JUST want to export the gifs, you ALSO have to export all of the aforementioned frame data and the feditor chopped up version, but that’s a fairly minor niggle.
Downside: FEditor is awful at importing, then exporting custom animations, so you also get ones that are completely garbled and useless on export. Too bad.
Rating: FEditor would be perfect if it didn’t explode custom animations.
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Emblem Magic:
EM’s gifs, as of now (Perhaps not for long) play ever so slightly too fast. While FEditor will pause on hit frames for a split second, EM’s will keep going. However, Emblem Magic will properly export animations without them becoming garbled, so that’s good.
Major downsides: You have to export each animation individually. You can export attack, critical, ranged, etc, but not all at once, and there is no ‘combined’ version with all of them playing.
Also, it doesn’t seem to have a way to import animations currently. Only EM formatted animations can be imported, not FEditor or FEbuilder animations, so unless I’m missing something, that’s a problem.
Sidenote: Lexou is working on ways to improve gif timings and such, so my complaints will be moot very soon, I’d wager.
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FEBuilder:
FEbuilder’s gifs are garbage. You can see it for yourself. They’re very slow and badly timed, plus they retain the background color. You can’t export gifs, FEbuilder formatted files, and FEditor formatted files all at the same time, you can only do them one at a time. Unless I’m missing an option, FEbuilder can also only export the basic attack animation, not the criticals or ranged or dodge animations or anything else. I would not be surprised if I were missing something.
There are basically no upsides to exporting with FEbuilder as of this moment. Hopefully this will change in the future.