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- Notes for "lwwf2anim"
- Ernie Wright
- ernie@gaspra.pd.com
- 7 Nov 94
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- lwwf2anim converts LightWave wireframe preview files into ANIM-5's.
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- The program operates in two modes. In interactive mode, it displays
- a control panel where you enter the input and output filenames and set
- the foreground and background colors. The program displays the preview
- as it's being converted. In batch mode, the program is started from a
- shell (or called from a script) with filename arguments, and performs
- the conversion without a display.
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- If you start the program from the Workbench, or from a shell without
- any arguments, the program opens in interactive mode. To run it in
- batch mode, start it with the command line
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- lwwf2anim <preview file> <anim file>
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- The preview image format is a single uncompressed bitplane, divided
- into fields. The image is longword-aligned for faster playback, and
- this causes some extra stuff to be recorded on the left side of the
- image if the pixel width of the preview window doesn't happen to be a
- multiple of 32. lwwf2anim can't crop the image (without guessing,
- anyway) because the file header doesn't say what the actual (cropped)
- image width should be, but you can easily load the ANIM it produces
- into DPaint or any image processing program that handles ANIM-5.
-
- Feel free to give this program to others. Don't charge for it. Don't
- include it with things you charge for before asking me. Do include
- this Notes file. I think the program works as intended and won't
- cause any harm, but, as they say, you use it at your own risk.
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- Let me know if you have problems. Not that I'm offering tech support
- for this free little thing, but the program hasn't been run on many
- systems yet, and if something that's easy to fix comes up, I might
- do the fix.
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