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From: stoller@cbmcel.UUCP (Martin S. Stoller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ANIM files
Message-ID: <164@cbmcel.UUCP>
Date: 8 Aug 90 08:07:47 GMT
References: <7232@helios.TAMU.EDU>
Reply-To: stoller@cbmcel.UUCP (Martin S. Stoller)
Organization: COMMODORE ELECTRONICS LIMITED
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In article <7232@helios.TAMU.EDU> n350bq@tamuts.tamu.edu (Duane Fields) writes:
>I need a way to chop the extra (last) frame off of a Deluxe-paint III anim file.
>Supposedly there is a PD prg out there that lets you insert/remove from from
>an anim file.  The specific problem is this: I need an anim (of a clock) to run
>from start to finish and that is it, I called EA and they say the Dpaint assumes
>the animation to be cyclic and takes frame #1 on to the end. HELP!
>
>Duane

In my expierience, DPIII actually saves the FIRST 2 pictures last (again).
So you need to chop the last two FORMs off.  Just take a good editor, load the
anim into MEM (you need quite a bit of mem to do that, but read to end anyway),
search for the second last FORM, then cut everything below and including
that FORM.  (My friend has 5MEG, and my anims are never that long, so
I use his machine :->).  OR...wait a bit and I'll write you a small util
that cuts off all useless anims at the end of DPIII anims.

NOTE!!!!  A DPIII ANIM with less FORMs then originally saved will NOT load
in DPIII, 'cause the size is incorrect.  Check comp.binaries.amiga for my
ANIM-5 Player...  It will eat anything...  A Utility that uts the last
two frames away from an ANIM must RE-BUILD the ANIM, so the size is properly
set (after the FORMANIM, in the header), and that's what I could do, if I feel
like it...



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   Regards,	Martin S. Stoller

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