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From: a1406@mindlink.UUCP (Elise Tarrant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ANIM converter?
Message-ID: <1371@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 26 Mar 90 02:35:50 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> baer@qiclab.UUCP writes:
> 
> Msg-ID: <4484@qiclab.UUCP>
> Posted: 26 Mar 90 00:09:20 GMT
> 
> Org.  : Animators Anonymous, Portland, OR.
> Person: Ken Baer
> 
> 
> I believe the latest version of TS and Sculpt/Animate4D have the option
> to save in ANIM.  Impulse is even using our ANIM player (with permission).
> 
> V1.2 (which saves in ANIMop5).  Editor V1.2 is recent, so if you pick it
> up at a local dealer, you might need to send in for the upgrade ($10),
> but you also get a non-protected version of Editor that way too. Capture
> is not copy-protected.
> 
> 
> --
>     //    -Ken Baer.  Programmer/Animator, Hash Enterprises.
>   \X/     Usenet: baer@qiclab.UUCP  or  PLink: KEN BAER
>           "I want to be an ..... ARCH VILLIAN!!!" -- Petey Pate.


Sculpt-Animate, Turbo-Silver and (I'm sorry to say, Ken) even Animation Editor
(at least the version I have) do not completely adhere to the IFF Anim-5
standard. For instance, try one of these combinations:

        Generate an Anim file with AniMagic and load it into Animation Editor.
The program will crash.

        Generate an anim file with Sculpt-Animate and load it into Animation
Station (overscan, interlace). You will see a very small, chopped-up version of
your anim file if you try to play it back.

        Generate an anim file with Turbo-Silver and try playing it back with
Movie 2.0 . It won't work, Movie will abort with an error message.
        (both the Sculpt-Animate and Turbo Silver anim files were generated
with the Anim-5 or equivalent option.)

        Anim-5, as outlined in the IFF docs, is not being adhered to by anyone.
That's why we're writing Animation Bridge, to clear up those last few details
that will make Anim-5 animation files _truly_ interchangeable.
Elise Tarrant
Mythra-mations Animation and Software
Vancouver, BC. Canada