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- In article <mcphers7.3.0012B465@studentm.msu.edu> mcphers7@studentm.msu.edu (Scepter) writes:
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- > Will anyone tell me if Lightwave for the PC will be able to output animations
- > in the .FLI or .FLC format. The .FLI format will be supported in a new BBS
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- If it doesn't, it shouldn't be too hard to write a plug-in to accomplish
- that.
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- But even that isn't needed. There's generally not too much need for
- making your rendering software capable of writing every still and
- animation format known to man. Just use a separate program to wait for
- the frames to appear on disk as LW renders them, and convert them to the
- format of your choice at that time. There's certainly some PC
- equivalent to ImageFX that understands how to do that. Then you can do
- other post-processing at the same time, like blasting your initials into
- a corner of each frame, or whatever you need.
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- (I dunno how things work on the PC, but on the Amiga you can probably
- even avoid the temporary file by having Lightwave write to a named pipe,
- and have ImageFX read from same).
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- This is just MHO, of course, but renderers should render, and image
- processors should process images. Cooperating specialized tools are
- better than monolithic tools.
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- - steve
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