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From: dbuck@ccs.carleton.ca (Dave Buck)
Subject: Re: Making DKBTrace Anims??
Message-ID: <1991Jun8.002524.23286@cunews.carleton.ca>
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Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
References: <6282@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> <1991Jun4.185550.7232@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1991 00:25:24 GMT

In article <1991Jun4.185550.7232@ucunix.san.uc.edu> reher@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Jay R. Reher) writes:
>
>	For making DKB anims, I use Cryo-Tools ANIMBuild... it allows you
>to have different palettes in each image. Director 2.0 also allows you to 
>use different palettes in each image.  If you are using Dumptoiff to convert
>from DKB format to iff then you need to have a palette switching anim maker.
>Dumptoiff doesn't use the same palettes for similar dkb files. Not to knock on
>it, it just wasn't designed for anims.....
>	
>	
>							Jay R. Reher


Actually, DumptoIFF can use a fixed colour palette.  If you use the -pfilename
option, the program will output the palette file that it produced.  You can
then use this file for the remaining pictures in the animation.

  eg.
      dumptioff -ppalette frame1.dis frame1.iff
      dumptoiff frame2.dis frame2.iff palette
      ...

David Buck
dbuck@ccs.carleton.ca