I am currently animating things in Visual basic. Im looking for a program that is used for designing units that i can then animate in Visual Basic.

Example: I want a unit with like a sword up, half up and down, and body and arms etc.. in different positions.

I was looking for a program that could do this. Any ideas? And if this is in the wrong forum, please move. But i put it here because it is kind of Visual Basic related.

Thanks in Advance!

How about an imagebox with images just being swapped back and forth on a timer?

I think he wants a .gif image with a very long animation.

Then that's a photoshop discussion not a VB one.

Do what Blaze suggested.

I think what he wants is a program that he can actually design the "units" in, not a method to display them in VB.

I think you can do what you're trying to do using Milkshape 3D.  It's a demo, but there's cracks for it everywhere (which I can't help you with here).

You can design a model in a 3d environment, then add a skeleton to it and pose it.  Then just use it's "snapshot" feature to capture a 2D image of it.

example (I didn't bother with a skeleton/posing, but you should get the idea):

[img]http://img297.echo.cx/img297/5039/box15nf.png[/img]
[img]http://img297.echo.cx/img297/9824/box22mf.png[/img]
[img]http://img297.echo.cx/img297/1046/box38ed.png[/img]

Then you can simply take the exported images, crop them, make a sprite sheet, blah blah blah, and still get a nice 3D look to them.  HTH.

Thank-you Nico! Your the only one who read my question and helped :)

Blaze just told me how to animate it, which i know, not where to get a program to DESIGN it.

And the rest of you were just copying and not realy helping. But nevermind, Thanks nico!

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Thank-you Nico! Your the only one who read my question and helped :)

Blaze just told me how to animate it, which i know, not where to get a program to DESIGN it.

And the rest of you were just copying and not realy helping. But nevermind, Thanks nico!
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Btw, your question was pretty much off-topic, since you weren't asking for how to do something in Visual Basic? :P