Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!husc6!umb!ileaf!io!carlos From: carlos@io.UUCP (Carlos Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Byte by Byte Sculpt_Animate questions Keywords: Sculpt 3d animation Message-ID: <517@io.UUCP> Date: 18 Dec 87 23:57:55 GMT References: <144@ra> <671@savax.UUCP> Reply-To: carlos@zapp.UUCP (Carlos Smith) Organization: Interleaf, Cambridge, MA Lines: 42 In article <671@savax.UUCP> thompson@savax.UUCP (thompson mark) writes: > I also have had problems with this software including the player program >called MOVIE. DILBM crashed whenever I tried to run it on a series of HAM >images created with Digi-Paint. I managed to get it to work on some Deluxe >Paint images however. (I do not believe the color pallete changed for either >set of images). Once I had finally created an '.anim' file, I tried to run >it with MOVIE and then I got <<>>> so catastrophic that >I couldn't even warm-boot. I don't think I ever ran out of memory, I was >only doing a few frames of lo-res on a 1.5M A1000. Someone suggested that >the program might not like my expansion RAM but running NOFASTMEM had no >effect. Never did get it to run (even though Kahnkanakas runs fine {nice >stuff} ). Any one else?? Comments?? >| Mark Thompson | >| decvax!savax!thompson <-- Center of the Universe about | >| (603)885-9229 which all revolves | One problem is stack size. As suggested by Eric Graham on Bix, I increased my stack size to 32K. Instead of crashing, I now get a polite out of memory error. Like Mr. Thompson, I can run Kahnankas, but most movies I try to make don't work, even using scripts identical to the examples given. I have had a little luck with HAM images, but none with DPaint pictures. I have concluded that this software is pretty buggy, and am looking forward to improved versions when Animate 3D ships. Unfortunately, though there are 200 versions of showanim floating around, there seems to be no PD programs to generate anim files (as opposed to movie files). Does anyone know of any PD or commercial software that will compose IFF files into anim files? I don't want to buy Videoscape 3D just to do this (if it can), but there seems to be no other means to do it. Page flippers are no good because they do not do compression. By the way, if anyone is interested in tricks to achieve palette control of Sculpt 3D, I will forward some information Eric Graham posted on Bix on that subject. -- Carlos Smith uucp:...!harvard!umb!ileaf!carlos Bix: carlosmith