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From: her@compel.UUCP (Helge Egelund Rasmussen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 24 bit color boards (HAM-E animation)
Message-ID: <1297@compel.UUCP>
Date: 5 Dec 90 09:27:21 GMT
References: <6069@crash.cts.com>
Organization: Compel, Copenhagen, DK
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bobl@pro-graphics.cts.com (Bob Lindabury, SysAdmin) writes:

>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.

Well, I haven't tried this, but I see two scenarios (using HAM-E):
1:  You are using the 262144 color HAM mode:
    In this case you're out of luck with DPaint because the color of a pixel
    depends of its neighbours. So moving a brush in this mode will at least 
    give strange "fringes" at the edge of the brush. 
    So here you're right.
2: You are using the 256 colors from 2^24 color-pallette mode:
   This should work fine if the color table for the brush and the color table
   for the picture is the same. (The same rule applies to normal IFF pictures
   in DPaint).
   I'm not sure that 'hame' (the 24 bit to HAM-E converter from Black-Belt)
   supports 'locking' of the color table between pictures, but as the source
   code is available, it should be possible to make this change.

Helge
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