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CHRONOS and TT CHRONOS
DISABLED VERSION 1.20
10-August-1991
Chronos 3D Key Frame Animator, Version 1.20
Copyright 1990, 1991 Paul Dana
All rights reserved
Produced for exclusive distribution by:
Lexicor Software Corporation
58 Redwood Road
Fairfax, CA 94930
(415) 453-0271
DISABLED VERSION
----------------
This disabled version of Chronos is identical to the currently
shipping version, except:
1) It cannot SAVE. You cannot save your work to an .ANM file.
2) It cannot RECORD. You cannot render and record your
work to an .FLM file.
3) It cannot render in any mode except WIREFRAME. No matter
what rendering option you specify in the RECORD dialog
it will always render in WIREFRAME.
Note: To see what types of rendering Chronos is capable of,
you may view one of the sample .FLM files that should be
included with this demo version of Chronos. To do this you
can use the PLAY feature of Chronos.
Lexicor has other demo animations you can view. Ask your
local Atari Dealer for a demonstration. If you have
a CompuServe account you can get other demo animations
and the free Kinetics Player Utility that is equivalent
to the Chronos PLAY feature in the Lexicor section
of the Atari Arts Forum. After logging on to CompuServe,
type GO ATARIARTS.
KNOWN PROBLEMS IN CHRONOS VERSION 1.20
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Redraw
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Periodically, there is a redraw problem when using a motion tool.
Occasionally when you use a tool and automatically switch to the
Work Screen, the screen will appear in reverse video. After
using the tool the screen will return to its normal colors. This
will permanently change your palette colors.
When you move an object in Chronos, a "bounding box" appears in
the place of the object while you are dragging the mouse.
Occasionally the bounding box for an object will be drawn
incorrectly, and will appear to be "missing some sides". There
will not affect your animation.
View Window
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The View Window has two modes: "Rotate about Self" and "Rotate
about Home". Chronos version 1.15 will not operate correctly if
you use "Rotate about Home" with the position of Home at any
other location other than the center of the Chronos universe
(0,0,0). (The position of Home is changed using the Set Home
command.)
Occasionally View keypad equivalents seem to have no effect. If
this happens, there is a work around. Open the View Window and
click either the Rotate About: Self button or the Rotate About:
Home button. (You can then return to whatever mode you were
actually using).
Frame Window
------------
There is a problem with the slider on the bottom of the Frame
Window.
Occasionally it will get "stuck". Click the scroll box again
to "unstick" it.
There is a problem with selecting frames in the Frame Window.
Occasionally the mouse will get confused and think that the left
mouse button is pressed when in fact it is not. This will cause
the Frame Window to continue tracking the mouse, even though the
left mouse button is not down.
Click anywhere in the Frame Window to fix this problem.
TT Specific Bugs
----------------
Occasionally, when previewing or recording animations on a TT in
ST High resolution, there is a problem with the on screen status
information (frame number and percent finished). Depending upon
the resolution you are rendering in, the text may "wrap" around
to the bottom of the screen, or to the left hand side of the
screen. Sometimes this erroneous text can also get into your
animations.
Running Chronos on a TT in ST High resolution also has an
occasional redraw. Sometimes, when returning to the Play Dialog
from an animation playback, the palette does not get correctly
reset. This can result in the entire screen being drawn with
white-on-white.
As a work around, do not run Chronos on a TT in ST High
resolution. Since the resolution you run Chronos from does not
affect your rendering resolution, use TT Medium resolution, to
avoid this problem.
There is a problem with window scroll bars when running Chronos
on a TT.
If you click a scroll arrow or the scroll area on a TT, it
acts as if you clicked twice.
Miscellaneous
------------
The Configure Dialog displays information about memory usage that
may not always be correct. Some data buffers that Chronos
version 1.15 allocates on a per-object basis may not be
represented in the memory usage information that Chronos version
1.15 displays.
The Object Information Dialog has the same memory usage problem
listed above. In some circumstances there may be data buffers
that Chronos has allocated on a per-object basis that are not
counted in the memory usage information that displays.
- END OF README.TXT