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BUILDSV (Dave's Self-Viewing Flic Builder)
Rel 1.0 (03/29/94)
Copyright (c) 1994, by David K. Mason
BUILDSV converts a Flic animation file (.FLI/.FLC/.FLX/.FLH/.FLT)
into an executable program by appending a copy of the flic to
special version of the DFV (Dave's Flic-Viewer) program.
You don't have to have DFV to get BUILDSV to work.
It should be able to handle any 320x200 .FLI you throw at it.
If you've got a VESA-compliant SVGA or are running a VESA driver,
then the player will be able to display .FLC files with
dimensions up to and including 1024x768 (in 640x480, 800x600,
or 1024x768 mode).
If you've got a VESA 1.2 hicolor SVGA, or a hicolor SVGA with
a VESA 1.2 driver, then it can also handle .FLX and .FLH files
up to 800x600 (in 640x480 or 800x600 mode).
The player can handle .FLT files up to 640x480, only if you've
got a VESA 1.2 truecolor SVGA, or truecolor SVGA with a VESA 1.2
driver.
The viewer runs in real-mode DOS, and reads from disk as it
plays. (It doesn't run in protected-mode because protected-mode
programs created with Borland Pascal can't read data from the
.EXE unless you make them read-only.)
Neither BUILDSV nor the self-viewing flics that it builds require
any DOS-extender files.
Syntax for BUILDSV
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BUILDSV flic-filename [exec-filename]
If you don't specify an exec-filename, one will be selected for you.
For example, if you've got a flic called BLOB.FLI, type:
BUILDSV BLOB.FLI
and BUILDSV will construct a program file called BLOB.EXE.
If you want to call it something else, type a second parameter
on the command line, like this:
BUILDSV BLOB.FLI BLOBANIM.EXE
Syntax for Self-viewing Flic
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flic-filename [/L#] [/S#]
/L Specify the number of times to play a flic (default=forever)
/S Force the flic to play at the specified speed (in 1/1000 second)
For example, if you used BUILDSV to create BLOB.EXE, you would
just type:
BLOB
to make it play. If you wanted to make it play just once, slowly,
you could type, instead,
BLOB /S100 /L1
While playing BLOB.EXE, you can change the speed by pressing
the numbers on your keyboard. 0 causes it to play as fast
as it can. 1 sets the speed to 30 frames per second, 2 to
24fps. The other numbers change the speed to assorted other
preset speeds.
To exit an animation, just press the escape key.
Shareware information
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BUILDSV is a shareware programs. If you continue to use it after a
one-month trial period, or if you distribute self-viewing flics
created with them, you're expected to pay a $35 registration fee
to the author:
David K. Mason
P.O. Box 181015
Boston, MA 02118
Miscellaneous advertisements
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Other shareware programs:
o Dave's TGA Animator (DTA), a flexible graphics conversion image
processing, composition, and animation utility that runs from
the DOS command line. Among other uses, it can convert your
still images to .FLI, .FLC, .FLH, and .FLT animation files
and back.
o Dave's Morphing program (DMorf), the first shareware morphing
program for the PC.
o Dave's Flic Viewer (DFV), a command-line flic animation viewer.
It can handle all of the varieties of flic files that DTA
can create, and also those from Autodesk Animator, Autodesk
Animator Pro, and Tempra Turbo Animator.
If you've already registered any of these programs, no additional
registration fee is required for BUILDSV.
Books:
o Making Movies on Your PC, by David K. Mason and Alexander
Enzmann, Waite Group Press, 1993, ISBN 1-878739-41-7, $34.95 USA.
This book teaches you how to create 3d animation sequences
using the Polyray raytracer and DTA.
o Morphing on Your PC, Waite Group Press, 1994, ISBN 1-878739-53-0,
$29.95 USA. This book teaches you how to create cool morphing
animations using DMorf and DTA.
Support
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If you've got any requests, bug reports, suggestions, or
comments, send a message to:
"76546,1321" on Compuserve.
From the Internet, that's "76546.1321@compuserve.com".
"David Mason" on the "The Graphics Alternative", (510) 524-2780,
and on "Channel 1" BBS, (617) 354-8873.
(I sometimes log on to the "You Can Call Me Ray" BBS,
(708) 358-5611, but not often these days because of
communications problems.)
You'll probably get some kind of a response (maybe sooner, maybe later).
You could also send paper mail to the address listed elsewhere in
this document, but I'm *terrible* at answering my mail. I much
prefer electronic mail.
The Rules
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Feel free to re-upload this program to other bulletin boards or
online systems or to give copies to friends. Just keep it in
its *original, unmodified* form. Don't change the name of the
ZIP file. It's supposed to be called BLDSV10.ZIP except on
Compuserve, where it's just called BLDSV.ZIP.
Do not include this program on a floppy disk or CD along with
any magazine, book, hardware product, or other software product
without my permission.
Do not include this program inside an archive along with any
shareware or freeware program unless you have my permission.
The big exception: I claim no rights at all over any self-viewing
flics that you build with BUILDSV. You retain all rights
to your own animations. This does *not* mean, however, that
you suddenly gain any new rights over other people's animations
just because you converted them to self-viewing flics.
Version History
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Rel. 1.0 (03/29/94) - Initial release.