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- **** RTAG -- Ray Tracing Animation Generator ****
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- 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.
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- Hardware requirements: IBM PC compatible computer with at least 512KB
- memory.
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- 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).
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- The RTAG system consists of the following files:
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- 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.
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- To install RTAG, copy the files into the directory of your choice.
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