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Animation on the Series3
"Dancer" and "Flick" are 2 of the graphics projects I've done on the
Series3. Others include a 2D maze generation program and a 3D maze
game yet to be finished. I wrote "Dancer" and "Flick" to see how fast
I could get window switching working for flicker free graphics.
"Dancer" uses 6 frames to get the speed. Take frames 01,03,05,07,09,11
from the set off eleven in this .ZIP file and rename them 01 through 06.
"Flick" can use all 11 frames but is slower. Flick can use animations
with up to 98 frames. Let me know if this isn't enough!
The versions of "Dancer" and "Flick" in this archive are new versions
that should not need editing. As long as the Dancer Pic files are in
a \PIC\ directory in A:,B: or M:. ( The proc tparse$: is used to set
up a full file name to look for. ffile$: then looks for the file. If
not found it looks on the other drives (A:/B:/M:) if still not found
an ALERT is given and the program exits.) The View.Pic file should be
placed in the \OPD\ directory.
One minor thing to note is the Dancer can use frames with variable sizes.
Flick on the other hand has to have all .PIC images the same size. If they
are not you'll get odd results.
When you run it you'll notice the dancer fits into the frame rather well.
This is because I use gCREATE to offset the window so that the middle of
the image is in the middle of the screen. If you move the image by adding
to x% or y% you'll notice there is more to the image. (not much though)
The Dancer frames come from a Mac DA of the same name. I was given no
docs for the Mac version so can't give credit to the chap that did the
graphics. Who ever it was thanks. I only used them because they were the
right size and could be pulled out of the DA with ResEdit faster than I
could set up the digitiser. If anyone can tell me who the person is I'd
like to know.
Should anyone come up with another set of .PIC files, I'd love to see
them no matter what they are of. (Nothing sick though please!)
Changes:
24/05/92 - Changed .PIC file names to end in 2 digit number, ie 01,02 etc.
- "Dancer" will now look for files in the \PIC\ directory or the
drive it is running from, then at the other two internal drives.
- "Flick" now prompts the user with a file name box. You should
tell it which *01.PIC file, ie DANCER01.PIC, you want to start
with - just in case you have lots of animations.
When the file box is shown, select the drive you want to read
from and press TAB to get a full screen file select box.
- The frame number in "Flick" is no longer hard coded. It will
now search to see how many frames it can find.
Known bugs:
"Flick" eats CPU and stops the Series3 from doing its power off.
If I add a pause command the program will run too slow. I may add
a delay input in the next version.
Any bug reports or changes you'd like to see should be mailed to me,
memerya@cix or posted in Psion/Series3.
Have fun, MarkE