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- From: fulldog@tag01.acnet.net (Victor Vargas G.)
- Subject: Re: HD anim player
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- References: <4kvsk0$oup@hell.team17.com> <721.6682T14T1873@sn.no>
- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 09:50:12 GMT
-
- In article <721.6682T14T1873@sn.no>, msteen@sn.no (Morten Steen) wrote:
-
- > Gareth Edwars wrote,
- > >Howdy folks,
- > >I've done a 360 frame test render of one of my Lightwave anims, and now
- > >that I've compiled it as an anim7, I found that the files size it 15Megs.
- > >This poses a problem, as I only have 14 Megs of memory 8^\
- > >I've tried VMM with no luck, so could any one advise me of the best
- > >direct-from-disk anim players they've found.
- > >I've tried all the ones on aminet (in the gfx/show subdir), but they all
- > >suck pretty hard.
- >
- > ViewTek should do the job.
-
- I've heard MainActor Broadcast can run from HD real fast, haven't really
- checked that out...
- Or bite the bullet and get ScalaMM- its HD anim playback is adequate; of
- course, is very dependant on HD speed, your processor, the delta values of
- the anim, so you might end up with jerky playback... if you need really
- smooth playback, you might try lowering resolution and antialiasing, or to
- use DCTV...
-
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- Victor Vargas G. ÇAmiga 3D animation & video graphics/Mac DTPÇ
-