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- Date sent: 29-JUN-1994
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- >I never use animations for games. But I want to use one as a intro
- >for my comming game Hero 2094..I don't know the difference between
- >those animation formats..
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- For the people out there who don't know:
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- Anim5: this is a basic byte run packed, delta compressed Anim format. It is
- widely used and is the format that DPaint uses. Compression is good but
- playback speeds can suffer with big, colourful animations.
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- Anim7: there are to different ways anim7's can be done: either word
- compression or longword compression.
- the main feature of anim7's is that they unpack a lot faster than
- Anim5 since they are packed on words and longwords rather than bytes.
- Typically, they are a fair bit bigger than Anim5's but big anims, like 256
- colour high res anims NEED the reduced unpacking time that Anim7's give.
-
- My anim player supports at the moment: Anim5 and Anim7 (word and longword).
-
- Steve Mc.
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