Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucsd!nosc!crash!pro-graphics.cts.com!bobl From: bobl@pro-graphics.cts.com (Bob Lindabury, SysAdmin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: 24 bit color boards Message-ID: <6069@crash.cts.com> Date: 4 Dec 90 11:36:34 GMT Sender: news@crash.cts.com Lines: 47 In-Reply-To: message from her@compel.UUCP bobl@pro-graphics.cts.com (Bob Lindabury, SysAdmin) writes: > >Animation with Ham-E can only be done by page flipping full pages, unless you > >count writing your own software to create animations and such. This is WRONG, I've used Imagine to create a 40 frame animation of a walking man. The output was in ILBM 24 bit, and was converted to 40 HAM-E pictures using the conversion program supplied by Black-Belt. These was then concatenated to a normal anim file by a standard anim creation utility. Each delta created had a size of about 6 K, so to final animation file had a size of about 240 K. The resulting anim could then be displayed by a normal anim file viewer. I've seen a HAM-E animations being manipulated by AnimationStation, which is an utility written to manipulate standard anim files. The only thing you cannot do is manipulate the colors. None of the existing anim packages understand 24 bit color, so that is not strange. >Don't be fooled by crafty advertising. And please don't make statements about something that you haven't tried to do yourself :-) Helge ----------------- Maybe I should have been more specific. Yes, you can animate 3D animations and such rendered from various 3D programs and then converted to the HAM-E format. This involves rendering each frame as a file and then converting them to HAM-E specifications (with TAD or included converter program). What I was referring to was 2D animation using moving brushes and such as are possible with Dpaint III. It will not work. You must page flip entire pages to get 2D animations to work. -- Bob ______ Pro-Graphics BBS "It's better than a sharp stick in the eye!" ________ UUCP: crash!pro-graphics!bobl | Pro-Graphics: 908/469-0049 ARPA/DDN: pro-graphics!bobl@nosc.mil | America Online: Graphics3d Internet: bobl@pro-graphics.cts.com | CompuServe: RIP _________ ___________ Raven Enterprises 25 Raven Avenue Piscataway, NJ 08854