Here is the beginnings of GSMovie. With the program I am distributing a documentation file GSM.Pre.Intro. Also with the program are several graphics files that I have found to show off the features of the program well. To be honest, only four features are completed. One can view uncompressed SHR files, view animation
sequences, and use two of the completed tools (tween and overlay screens).
First copy the program to your hard drive or large ram disk.
To see how the tweening tool works do the following:
Go to File-Open and take a look at the pictures Attack and Attack2. Then go to the Tools menu and select Tween Screens. Click on the first box and select Attack. Click on the second box and select Attack2. Next, click on the third box and click on Save to use the default filename. Finally click on Go!. You will then see the program process a transition between the two pictures. After that is done, select View Sequence under the Tools menu and select the File ╘Tween0000' from the list. This is how you can watch a sequence of frames.
The Overlay tool is very similar to the tweening tool and can in fact do what the tweening tool does albeit slower. The Overlay tool allows one to combine separate pictures one or more colors at a time instead of all at once. So if you have a picture with a large black background, you could use this feature to place another image in the background. You can also now use a third image to determine what sections of the picture are to be changed in the transition.
To get an idea when the overlay tool can do select the picture Dragon2 as the first picture. Select Firewall as the second picture. Use the default save filename. Make sure the color 00 check box contains an ╥X╙ and that the 1st frame mask radio button is selected. Finally, Click on Go! You can view the sequence once it is done processing.
Feel free to distribute GSMovie to your friends or any club you are a member. You can also say that I do not expect a shareware fee since the program is incomplete.
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Also on the disk is a copy of my math routines. There is no licensing fee, but I must be given proper credit if they are used in your programs. I have only used the jump tables myself in the GSMovie program. It is just a waste of CPU time to actually use the stack (C routines) from assembly. If you have the time, I would appreciate your testing the various routines I have completed. Some of them are kind of nasty considering how I overlap the stack and direct page. You will see what I mean.
Please contact me if you have any questions or problems.
