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- The Lightwave (© NewTek Inc.) Enhancer Macros are a collection
- of tools, which supports you when creating animations of objects
- or particles. Beside of these macros you will also find macros
- for another purposes. Three of the macros invoke ADPro, which
- shure is installed on your computer.
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- The functions of the macros complement each other. E.g. you cre-
- ate with Kinematics a sequence of motion files, which you bundle
- with Objects2Scene to a new scene. The seperation of the functi-
- ons allows to use the functions for other purposes as described,
- and gives a greater flexibility in combining the tools.
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- Kinematics, Wormhole und Gravity generate sequences of motion
- files. You invoke Objects2Scene to load these motions with the
- appropriating objects into a new scene file. This scene is ready
- to be loaded as it is, but the more powerfull choice is to load
- the objects via Objects/Load from Scene into an existing scene.
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- ExplodeLoad, ParticleRain, Fourier und Gravity are calculating
- sequences of morphable objects. The morphs are then created by
- invoking the macro Morph2Scene. Load this scene as described or
- insert the objects into an existing scene.
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- FlyMotion and MotionEdit are editing sequences of motions and
- copying this motions to an different drawer (the original files
- can be overwritten by selecting the same drawer for the destina-
- tion as for the source). If you have created 100 motion files
- with Kinematics, they can be merged with 100 existing motions
- with the function Merge of the macro MotionEdit.
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- In general: all macros working on sequences of files store the
- resulting files in a specified destination drawer; the name
- stays the same. Selecting the same drawer for source and desti-
- nation means to overwrite your original files.
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- Those macros, which are creating more than one file, need a ba-
- sename as destination. This basename will be extented with as
- many digits, as you specified in the SetGlobals macro. If you
- entered "RAM:temp/motion." as basename, you will find the files
- "motion.001", ".002" ... in the drawer "RAM:temp".
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- The type of file requester shows you, whether the macro works on
- a single file or on a sequence of files. In case of selecting a
- destination drawer, the normal file requester comes up; the ti-
- tle bar of the requester tells you to select a drawer only.
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- All settings in all of the macros are stored to seperate files
- in the drawer "ENV:LWEnhancer", therefore the macros always re-
- member the last entered values. To store the current settings,
- copy the LWEnhancer drawer to a different location (vice versa
- to restore the old settings). To get rid of the changes you have
- made to the defaults, simply delete the whole drawer.
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