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- Short: Requester animations for ReqAttack
- Author: lehtom@sci.fi (Miikka Lehto)
- Uploader: lehtom@sci.fi
- Type: gfx/misc
- Requires: ReqAttack
- Distribution: Freely Distributable
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-
- General
-
- 14 different cool (??) animations for ReqAttack. 32
- color versions for AGA only users. 64 color versions
- for graphics card users or AGA users, who have
- maybe 128 color WB in use. ReqAttack can re-map
- colors if you have only 64 colors in use (with couple
- of locked colors), but never tested this. Not big
- difference between 32 and 64 colors anyway. Some
- anims are more or less ugly with 32 colors, but overall
- 32 colors is enought. All animations are in two different
- size. 62 and 82 pixels or 82 and 102 pixels, depends
- of complexity of it. Choose you own. All animations
- created with Amiga.
-
- reqattack.prefs file is included. Paste it to you own prefs
- file or replace original with it.
-
- This package is freeware. If you edit them (better dithering
- etc...) and spread them, include my name somewhere.
-
- Suggestions, comments and new ideas are more than
- welcome.
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-
- Installation
-
- Copy 64col or 32col drawer contents (or both...) to
- ReqAttack/Animlogos
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-
- Tips
-
- When you test these animations, test them in practice !!
- Multiview with reqattack datatypes gives very poor quality
- (with my machine...). You get real quality only in practice !!
-
- Seems, that 060 processor is enought fast to play even
- 120*120 pixel animation. If it looks like, that you processor
- cannot play maybe 82 pixel animation well, you can do
- something like this... convert ReqAttack AnimBrush to
- ReqAttack brush-file with RAIM_Anim2brush. Now you get
- file, where all frames are in one big picture. CyberShow
- can read it, then save it as 24 bit IFF-picture. Resizing
- with only 32 or 64 colors gives bad result. Now you can
- resize it with ImageFX or similar tool to suitable size. After
- resizing convert picture to colormapped. Be sure, that
- used software saves colormapped picture with 64 or 32
- color palette, not with 256 color palette, as IFX 3.3 do.
- IFX 4.1 makes that right. Now save it as IFF and convert
- it with RAIM_Convert tool. RAIM_Anim2IFF makes picture
- straight to IFF, but not works in my computer anyway. With
- 256 color palette animation takes more room from hard disk
- and therefore takes more time to load.
-
- Consult ReqAttack help-files, before you use it's tools.
-
-
- Thanks
-
- Specially to Georg Steger, author of ReqAttack. Now it is
- possible to use animations in amigas requesters. And use
- requesters straight from keyboard. Great package overall !
- And thanks to whole amiga community of course.
-
-
- Animations:
-
- - boing_info ,global animation for global message-requesters
-
- - delete ,for delete requesters
-
- - exclamanation ,very basic rotating exclamanation mark
- - fire ,not so good fire-animation
- - format ,nice animation for "ok to format" requester
- - global ,rotating boing ball, for global requesters
- - guru ,skull and flaming backround, for guru-requester
- - insert ,for please insert disk requester
- - mustinsert ,for you must replace requester
- - lightning ,hmmmm ... somehow bad quality in 32 colors.
- - query ,basic rotating query sign)
- - rw-error ,for read-write errors. Funny, bits bumps they
- heads to brick-wall
- - stink ,for not a DOS-disk requester....
- - write-protect ,basic write-protect animation
-
- Enjoy ReqAttack, this package, you amiga and whatever !
-
- Miikka Lehto
-