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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 06:54:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Stephen Bowie <ad636@freenet.toronto.on.ca>
Subject: Re: Disk animation?
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On Wed, 19 Apr 1995 ZHUNT@Calumet.Yorku.Ca wrote:
> >Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 20:46:29 -0700
> >To: lightwave-l@netcom.com
> >From: lbern@PrimeNet.Com (Larry Bernstein)
> >Subject: Disk animation?
> >
> >A friend of mine recieved a disk with a short (10-15 sec) animation of a
> >new car rotating, as a sales promo. It runs on a PC without the need of
> >"player" program.
> >
> > He wants to be able to give out floppies with short animations and/or
> >rotoscoped clips as a sales promo.
> >
> > How is this done? Is it MPEG compression? Can it be done with LightWave
> >alone?
> >
> > Thanks, any help appreciated
> >
> > Larry
> >
> As I understand it, your friend has a animation with the player code
> built-in. LW can generate the frames no problem, but you'll need something
> to connec them. On the Amiga the standard format is .ANIM (PC uses
> FLI/FLC), LW can (version 3.5 I'm using) generate ANIM files. For a player,
> there are a number, Veiwtek seems to be my choice (PD software by the guys
> who do ImageFX) or AnimX or a bnumber of others, I can't think of any that
> can add the player code to the animation so the whole thing is
> self-contained in one file.
> As for MPEG, I doubt it would be in that format as it requires lots of horse
> power to decompress (think how long a single JPEG takes to load, now MPEG
> works on some of the same principals, so imagine doing 30 JPEGs a second
> PLUS add in sound, right now even Pentiums as '060s can't really do it fast
> enough.)
> Z
>
I've seen several pd programs which will convert anims into executable
files requiring nothing other than a double click to run...can't think of
names tho' :-(
If you don't get a workable repsonse, I'm sure you could get someone's
help in comp.sys.amiga.graphics.
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