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In  this tutorial you will learn how to convert a png frame (i.e with some vehicle pictures) into an srf file for your garmin gps.

Follow our others tutorials in order to create the png file.

This tutorial only give you a tool (Mac users only) to allow this conversion.

 

  1. First you need a frame like this
  2. Save & name it “myvehicle.png”
  3. Download (see below) our tool precompiled for Mac : png2srf and decompress it in the same directory than the file “myvehicle.png”
  4. Launch this command line :
  5. png2srf myvehicle.png mygarmincursor.srf
  6. Install mygarmincursor.srf on your garmin GPS.

Enjoy your new cursor !

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6th Jan 2013
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In  this tutorial you will learn how to create automatically the garmin vehicle PNG frame with a gimp script fu.

Gimp is a free picture editing software. It is very powerfull and has a script support.You can download it at http://www.gimp.org

When creating a custom garmin vehicle, you have to create 37 pictures of your vehicle (36 pictures with your spinning vehicle and 1 for the view of your vehicle from the top)

Here, we just want to compose a PNG frame with the 37 PNG pictures, like this :

This frame will then be directly used to generate an .srf file.

  1. Download and install the provided script (see download at the end of the article)
  2. In order to install a script fu for gimp on MAC, copy the .scm file into /users/”your username”/library/Application Support/Gimp/scripts/
  3. Then, launch Gimp software.
  4. Normally, you will find a new menu called “Batch”, here you will find your program : Garmin Vehicles PNG Frame. Click on it.
  5. Select the folder where you have generated your 37 pictures on PNG format.
  6. Select your picture’s name : For example, if you recorded my_car0.png, my_car1.png, my_car2.png….my_car35.png… and… my_car_dessus.png : write the name “my_car”
  7. Click on validate.

This will normally generate a file my_car_frame.png with your garmin vehicle.

This script is very usefull to create a PNG file that will be converted to .srf garmin compatible file.

Enjoy!

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4th Mar 2011
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In  this tutorial you will learn how to create automatically an animated gif with a gimp script fu.

Gimp is a free picture editing software. It is very powerfull and has a script support.You can download it at http://www.gimp.org

When creating a custom garmin vehicle, you have to create 37 pictures of your vehicle (36 pictures with your spinning vehicle and 1 for the view of your vehicle from the top)

Here, we just want to compose an animated gif with the 36 PNG pictures, like this :

  1. Download and install the provided script (see download at the end of the article)
  2. In order to install a script fu for gimp on MAC, copy the .scm file into /users/”your username”/library/Application Support/Gimp/scripts/
  3. Then, launch Gimp software.
  4. Normally, you will find a new menu called “Batch”, here you will find your program : Garmin Vehicle Gif Animation. Click on it.
  5. Select the folder where you have generated your 36 pictures on PNG format.
  6. Select your picture’s name : For example, if you recorded my_car0.png, my_car1.png, my_car2.png….my_car35.png : write my_car
  7. Click on validate.

This will normally generate a file my_car.gif with your spinning vehicle.

This script is very usefull to preview your spinning vehicle !

Enjoy!

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4th Mar 2011
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