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From: her@compel.UUCP (Helge Egelund Rasmussen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 24 bit color boards
Message-ID: <1296@compel.UUCP>
Date: 2 Dec 90 12:40:01 GMT
References: <6015@crash.cts.com>
Organization: Compel, Copenhagen, DK
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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
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