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My Custom Animated Tokens do not have a transparent background

Hiii. Been working on a little tactical rpg style campaign here and I made a couple tokens that I wanted animated. When I place them in gif or webm form, they have a white background surround it, whereas if I had animations disabled, those backgrounds become transparent again. Is there any way to make the background transparent while animated? Any help would be very appreciated.
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The Aaron
Roll20 Production Team
API Scripter
What software are you using to create the gif and webm formats?
At the moment, I'm using an online tool to make them. <a href="https://ezgif.com/maker" rel="nofollow">https://ezgif.com/maker</a> This is the resulting test character I have made from this website.
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The Aaron
Roll20 Production Team
API Scripter
The background color is part of the image. The software you use will composite the frames onto a background. I'd suggest using something else. I often use The GIMP fir crating gifs.&nbsp;
Okay, awesome. Thank you! I’ll give that a go and see how it turns out. I still think its weird though, the gif I uploaded up there has a transparent background on Discord and on Roll20 (only if animations are disabled) but it not when it’s playing the animation on Roll20.
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The Aaron
Roll20 Production Team
API Scripter
Gifs have done weird options. It could be that the animated frames each have a background, and the first frame doesn't. If you see flicker in the animation, that might be the case. It could also be something with discord and the Roll20 preview assuming a given index in the palette is transparent. If you keep having problems with the background on GIMP, I can dig in a bit more with your files.&nbsp;
I've made a new gif from GIMP and the result appears to still be the same. What I have noticed though is the file format changes on upload, becoming a webm file instead of a regular gif file in my image library. I'll send you the 6 frames I'm using and the newest gif if you wanna test it for yourself, its probably that I don't quite know how to properly make a gif on GIMP yet. I've set each frame to replace each other with no background layer and a 200 millisecond delay between frames. That's the gif These are the 6 frames. They've been named/numbered in order from '1EtnaB' to '6EtnaB'.
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The Aaron
Roll20 Production Team
API Scripter
Ok, I tried your gif in my game and I get the transparent background. What Operating System and Browser?&nbsp; (and what versions of each?)
I’m using Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 64-bit I suppose I should be using Chrome or a more optimised browser? Either way if it works for your computer then that’s the green light to animate the rest of my tokens.
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The Aaron
Roll20 Production Team
API Scripter
AH.&nbsp; That is the issue.&nbsp; Chrome or Firefox are the supported browsers.&nbsp; Edge doesn't have all the features working completely.
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Gold
Forum Champion
Good to see the answer figured out.
Wonderful. Thanks for the help :D