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- From: bmaple@burner.com (Bob Maple)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: DPaint IV Question
- Message-ID: <bmaple.0815@burner.com>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 13:50:57 MST
- Organization: The Back Burner BBS (via C-Net Amiga)
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- Here is an interesting one I've not been able to figure out.
-
- I created a simple picture of the 'Red Alert' screen from Star Trek
- (specifically II: The Wrath of Khan--the screens have changed slightly from
- movie to movie I think).
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- To make it 'move', I used color cycling, since that was all it required--no
- sense in making an animation. I set up 5 red colors from light to dark, and
- a single black color. I setup a range in DPaint IV that consisted of the 5
- reds from bright to dark, and about 8 blacks--the same SINGLE pallete entry--
- repeated in a row. This allowed me to 'space' the cycling, without having to
- make several repeated black colors.
-
- DPaint cycles the picture fine. The more blacks I put in, the longer the
- 'wait' is before the picture cycles again.
-
- However, DirectoryOpus, MOSTRA, and View alike refuse to cycle the picture.
- They display it fine, but will NOT cycle it. After removing the repetitous
- blacks so that only a single one remained, all viewers handled it fine. But
- the second you duplicated one of the pallete entires in a way that I did, the
- programs refused to cycle it at all.
-
- My question is this; Is DPaint breaking the rules by letting me add the same
- color into the range, multiple times, in a row, or are the various viewers
- I mentioned not recognizing them properly? I don't have any of the IFF specs
- to see if it's even legal to do what I'm doing. But considering DPaint lets
- you..
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