NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #20/NN_1992_20.iso/spool/comp/sys/amiga/graphics/5902

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Subject: Imagine 2.0 and the ANIM 5 format --- HELP!!
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From: [e-mail] (Matthew Richard     Buchanan       )
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 00:14:47 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland
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I rendered a 30 frame animation in 320x512 interlaced HAM, in ANIM format,
and made it a looping anim. By rights, this should have tacked the first
two frames of my animation onto the end, just as DPaint 4 does.
I used DPaint 4 to load in my anim, and it choked on it about three quarters
of the way through and crashed my 3000 with a horrible NTSC black flickery
screen (not even a guru).

So then I tried playing the anim with PPAnim (i did not compress it), and it
played through the first loop fine, but then as soon as it got back to the
start, there were horrible remnants of the previous screens all over the
anim for all successive loops.

So then I re-rendered it (i had deleted the files as I went - bad move) in
80x103 (one sixteenth of the screen), this time with looping anim flag turned
off, and PPAnim had no problem, neither did DPaint (apart from the lack
of palette swapping between frames).

What I want to know is, can a true looping ANIM 5 format be produced within
Imagine, or will I have to make do with a slight jump at the end of each
loop?? PPAnim as I understand it can play looping anims, but not simulate
them from non-looping ones, is that right??

Anyone got anything that might help??
AdvaTHANKSnce,
Matt.
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