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- From: mike@pyrite.SOM.CWRU.Edu (Michael Kerner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
- Subject: Re: AddMotion for HC
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 19:10:07 GMT
- Organization: WSOM CSG, CWRU, Cleve., OH, 44106, USA
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- In article <BzGtG0.IAt@ccu.umanitoba.ca> browns@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Stuart Brown) writes:
- >I'm working on a HC stack that will be an interactive mathematics teacher.
- >We want to include color and animation without using huge amounts of memory
- >(as lots of Quicktime movies would). I've looked at some software called
- >AddMotion that claims to do just this.
-
- Nope, it doesn't. AddMotion is o.k. for animation, but it blows for
- color cards - every time you load what you think is a color card you
- wind up with an extra 2MB of resources - PER CARD! AddMotion is also
- slow in getting the color up. So, as an animation generator/viewer
- it's pretty good (but you still have that extra 2MB loaded per
- animation sequence - which you can unload, but loading and unloading
- takes time). Of course, if you've ever used MacroMind Director you'll
- think that AddMotion is a shoddy tool. Quicktime really is a better
- way to go, if you can swing it - but it depends on how complex your
- animation is. Oh, by the way, AddMotion has some annoying bugs - I
- sent MotionWorks in all about twelve pages of bug reports when the
- product first came out - and it hasn't gotten much better, in my
- opinion.
-
- If you want color cards, use ColorizeHC from BungDabba (available via
- anonymous FTP from tons of sites). It works well (although real color
- in HC would work better), and the docs are good.
-
-
- >Also, it would be really useful if somehow this stack could be made to
- >stand alone -ie. not require HyperCard to run on the users computer. Are
- >there any viable solutions for this?
-
- Well, there's the player if you want to shell out $$$, or you can
- check into Double-X from Heizer software which I'm waiting for right
- now (I was expecting it last week, so I should have it any day now)
- which claims to make application creation very easy - we'll see...
-
- If you have questions, please EMAIL me. I'll be happy to answer ( I
- often don't rn for several days at a time and with Christmas fast
- approaching there's no guarantee that I'll be back in soon).
-
- Mikey.
- --
- Mikey.
- Mac Admin "Emeritus"-WSOM CSG - CWRU / Engineer-NewMedia Corp. Cleveland, OH
- "Yo, man, black & white people gotta' start communicating, man - we need each
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