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- MakeFlc 24-08-1992 This program is not documented, and is still
- under development.
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-
- This program is used to convert gif images made with 24bit to gif mode
- in RenderStar to FLC files. This program can also be used to downscale
- a GIF image, for example a 1280x960 GIF image can be downscaled to
- 640x480 and therefor generate a natural anti-alias method.
-
- Options
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- input -f process one single frame, don't count
- output -g output gifs instead of flc
- output -d delete gif input frame when finished
- quant -1 one palette on output
- quant -a anti-alias by down-scaling
-
- Examples
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- makeflc \dir\name will convert \dir\name___0 etc. into \dir\name.flc.
- makeflc -1 \dir\name will do a two pass quant over the whole series.
- makeflc -ga \dir\name will down scale, re-quant and output a gif series.
- makeflc name__100 will start making a flc from frame 100.
- makeflc -fga \dir\name will allow extra anti aliasing on a frame by frame basis.
-
- The rez of the first frame is used for the whole series. If a frame is
- found with a different rez the program will abort.
-
- When outputing gifs the files are written back with the same filename
- so no extra disc space is used during this process.
-
- With the -d option the gifs are deleted while the flc is build.
-
- The anti-alias option is based on a size reduction by 2 combined with
- a 3 by 3 weigthed convolution filter.
-
- When dithering everything with the background color will be skipped.
- This color is passed along in the gif file so MakeFLC can find it again.
- It will keep the background dither free and pass along the color in
- subsequent operations. (works only with engine 2.15 and higher)
-
- -- -1 and -a don't work well together. it is more efficient to do
-
- makeflc -ga \dir\name
- makeflc -1 \dir\name
-
- in succession. this way no temp files (they would be tga's !!) are
- needed and the final one palette quant will use the already smaller frames.
-
- -- speed is set to 0 as default.