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- Copyright 1987 Aegis Development and Sparta Inc.
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- ShowANIM A program for the playing of ANIM file.
- We have provided ShowANIM so that you can distribute
- your VideoScape 3D animation. ShowANIM is a freely
- distributable "player" program. PlayANIM is NOT to
- be given away.
-
- ShowANIM is designed so that you can create self booting
- demo disks. It uses a single command line argument.
- You can edit the startup-sequence of a WorkBench disk
- to play a animation that you have created. This could
- be used for the startup of a program, or disk based
- magazine.
-
- The usage for this program is simply:
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- ShowANIM filename
-
- which will load the specified ANIM file into memory
- and play it one time.
-
- There are also three switches which can be used:
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- -l loop mode - will replay the animation
- over and over from the start. Execution
- can be terminated only by a re-boot.
- Optionally you can specify a number of loops.
- For example -l8 would play the animation eight
- times.
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- -c continuous play mode - this is similar to
- -l above except ShowANIM assumes you have a
- two frame overlap at the end of the ANIM file
- (the last two frames are IDENTICAL to the
- first two). Given this requirement, ShowANIM
- can play the animation over and over in a
- continuous fashion. You can also specify
- the number of loops, for example -c5 would
- play the animation five times.
-
- +nn where nn is a two digit number indicating the
- number of vertical blanks (1/60 sec jiffies)
- for each frame. ShowANIM will assure that at
- least this number of vertical blanks will
- occur between frames. e.g. a +6 will produce
- a 10 frame/second animation provided ShowANIM
- can reconstruct the frames that fast. This
- will override the reltime parameter on the
- ANHD chunks on the ANIM file.
-
- For example, to show the triplanes.anim file on this
- disk continuously at 15 frames per second, for ten
- times enter:
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- ShowANIM -c10 +4 r_baron.anim
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- R_Baron.anim - This is a nice animation of a tri-plane
- provided courtesy of Allen Hastings (author of
- VideoScape-3D on which this ANIM was produced).
- This ANIM file has a two frame overlap at the end
- which permits it to be played back with the -c switch
- (continuous play) in which case it will fly round and
- round forever (nearly).
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