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- From: dre@cray.com (Dennis Ellis)
- Subject: Re: RayShade, Animator, TgaFli & AaPlay
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.161334.1999@walter.cray.com>
- Organization: Cray Research Inc
- References: <MAILQUEUE-101.920813135516.448@cbe.qut.edu.au>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 16:13:34 CDT
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- In article <MAILQUEUE-101.920813135516.448@cbe.qut.edu.au> M.CRAMER@qut.edu.au (Mark Cramer) writes:
- >
- >
- > I have been playing round with RayShade for a little while now, and
- >was going to produce some Fli files of the images I'm creating. and I've
- >hit a little problem. I have a copy of AutoDesk Animator, AaPlay (an
- >fli player) and TgaFli (which converts a sequence of tga files to an fli)
- >
- > The files which TgaFli produces don't have a single palette, so the
- >image flickers from frame to frame. The Docs for TGAFLI say to load the
- >Fli in Animator and force it to one palette, which I can do, but then
- >AaPlay no longer recognises the Fli file. The docs also say save the
- >single palette in Animator, and use that to recreate the Fli using
- >TgaFli. I've tried that too, it just screws up the colours, so they look
- >nothing like the originals.
- >
- > Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Or is there another way of
- >taking a sequence of TGA files and producing an Fli file, with a single
- >palette, that AaPlay can play?
- >
- I think what you want is a program called 'DTAxxx' (Dave's Targa
- Animator??). It is available on most archives. See the weekly Resources
- posting if you can't find it. I'm not sure what the latest version is.
-
- Hope this helps.
-
- By the way, how do you get your TGA files? The last time I played with
- RayShade, I had to modify the source to put the TGA output stuff in myself.
- Is it now a standard RayShade output?
-
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