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**** RTAG -- Ray Tracing Animation Generator ****
RTAG is a program to facilitate the generation of ray traced
animations. RTAG is not a ray tracing program; rather, it enables you
to generate the appropriate position of objects to produce an
animation using the ray tracing program of your choice. RTAG compiles
a programming language designed for animation generation. This
programming language contains full arithmetic expressions, conditional
control, looping, and a rich set of library functions including spline
path generation. The output of RTAG is a set of files that can be used
with ray tracing programs such as POV-Ray, to produce an image for
each frame. It also produces the appropriate .BAT file to render the
sequence of images.
Hardware requirements: IBM PC compatible computer with at least 512KB
memory.
RTAG is a "shareware" product. You are welcome to make copies of this
program and pass them on to friends or post this program on bulletin
boards (in its original, unmodified form).
As a shareware product, you are granted a no-cost, trial period of 30
days during which you may evaluate RTAG. If you find RTAG to be
useful, educational, and/or entertaining, and continue to use it
beyond the 30 day trial period, you are required to compensate the
author by sending the registration form printed in the REGISTER.DOC
file with the appropriate registration fee to help cover the
development and support of RTAG.
In return for registering, you will be authorized to continue using
RTAG beyond the trial period and you will receive the most recent
version of the program, a laser-printed, bound manual, and three
months of support via telephone, mail, or CompuServe. Your
registration fee will be refunded if you encounter a serious bug that
cannot be corrected.
The RTAG system consists of the following files:
RTAG.EXE -- The executable program.
RTAG.DOC -- Documentation file.
*.RTA -- Example animation control files.
*.POV -- Example POV-Ray scene files.
REGISTER.DOC -- Form to register and order latest version of RTAG.
VENDOR.DOC -- Information for BBS or disk vendors.
RENDER.BAT -- Example file to execute POV-Ray.
DODTA.BAT -- Example file to run DTA to build .FLI file.
To install RTAG, copy the files into the directory of your choice.