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- >In article <mcphers7.3.0012B465@studentm.msu.edu> mcphers7@studentm.msu.edu (S
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- >epter) writes:
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- >> Will anyone tell me if Lightwave for the PC will be able to output animation
- s
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- >> 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.
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- So far, I have yet to see anything equivalent to ImageFX or ADPro
- on the PC.
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- If such exists, could someone please clue me in.
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-
- 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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- Well, there's also pre-processing--it might be nice to have a FLC anim
- as an image source, rather than saving all the frames out.
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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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- This of course is the point of plug-ins.
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- > - steve
- >
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