frame-translation-generator

frame-translation-generator is a simple command line tool written in Rust. It generates MoreMcmeta animations by translating a window across an image to generate an animation. This is useful for generating "sliding" animations like the Minecraft enchantment glint.

Options

Run the tool with the --help flag to view a list of the tool's options.

• input - path to image to use as input
• output - path where new file will be written. Any existing file at this location will be overwritten.
• frame-width - width of the window and each frame in the resulting animation. This is not the width of the entire image.
• frame-height - height of the window and each frame in the resulting animation. This is not the height of the entire image.
• x-start - initial x-coordinate of the top-left corner of the window. x=0 refers to the left side of the image.
• y-start - initial y-coordinate of the top-left corner of the window. y=0 refers to the top of the image.
• dx - horizontal pixels by which to translate the window each frame
• dy - horizontal pixels by which to translate the window each frame
• max-frames - maximum number of frames to generate

For example,

$ ./frame-translation-generator --input=myimage.png --frame-width=64 --frame-height=64 --dx=1 --dy="-3" --x-start=0 --y-start=4032 --max-frames=1024 --output=output.png`

will read myimage.png, put the first 64x64 frame at (0, 4032), and then generate frames by moving the window right 1 1 pixel and up 3 pixels until the image boundary is reached or until 1024 frames are generated. The frames will be written to output.png.

Building the Tool

Install Rust. Then run cargo build or cargo build --release (for an optimized build) from the command line.