Creating custom ANM files

Duke Nukem 3D uses the DeluxePaint Animation format for displaying its cutscenes and logos. These are a sequence of ZSoft PCX images within the ANM file.

You can create your own ANM files, as well as extract the PCX files from an existing ANM file by using the ANIM2PCX tool.

Although ANM files are limited to a 8bit palette, you can have a custom one in every animation for higher image quality. Please note that the first color in the palette used is used as background color during blitting and filling of the screen. All resulted letterboxing will use this color as the background color. While the animation changes, it's also possible that you will see the screen filled with this color for a single game tick.

Unless each of the PCX images within the ANM file have the same palette, the palette of the first file will be used for the remainder of frames.Template:Citation needed

List of animations

These are all the animations that exist by default in Duke Nukem 3D (1.5) and their framerates.

#	Name	Framerate
1	cineov2	120/10
2	cineov3	120/10
3	RADLOGO	120/10
4	DUKETEAM	120/10
5	logo	120/9
6	vol41a	120/14
7	vol42a	120/18
8	vol4e1	120/10
9	vol43a	120/10
10	vol4e2	120/14
11	vol4e3	120/10

By default, the game looks for a file with the extension .ANM for each animation file, but with the addition of IVF support in EDuke32, you can also use the IVF container for custom animations.

Full list of sounds played for each animation

By replacing these sounds, you can customize your own animation files with new sound files. The frames they're played on are hard-coded, but listed here for ease of use.

cineov2 Frame Sounds 1 WIND_AMBIENCE 26 ENDSEQVOL2SND1 36 ENDSEQVOL2SND2 54 THUD 62 ENDSEQVOL2SND3 75 ENDSEQVOL2SND4 81 ENDSEQVOL2SND5 115 ENDSEQVOL2SND6 124 ENDSEQVOL2SND7

cineov3 Frame Sounds 1 WIND_REPEAT 98 DUKE_GRUNT 82+20 THUD, SQUISHED 104+20 ENDSEQVOL3SND3 114+20 ENDSEQVOL3SND2 158 PIPEBOMB_EXPLODE

logo Frame Sounds 1 FLY_BY 19 PIPEBOMB_EXPLODE

vol41a Frame Sounds 1 INTRO4_1 12 INTRO4_2 7 INTRO4_3 26 INTRO4_4

vol42a Frame Sounds 1 INTRO4_B 12 SHORT_CIRCUIT 34 SHORT_CIRCUIT 18 INTRO4_5

vol4e1 Frame Sounds 3 DUKE_UNDERWATER 35 VOL4ENDSND1

vol43a Frame Sounds 10 INTRO4_6

vol4e2 Frame Sounds 11 DUKE_UNDERWATER 20 VOL4ENDSND1 39 VOL4ENDSND2 50 FX_StopAllSounds();

vol4e3

Frame	Sounds
1	BOSS4_DEADSPEECH
40	VOL4ENDSND1, DUKE_UNDERWATER
50	BIGBANG