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From: jojo@astroatc.UUCP (Jon Wesener)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: aegis animator
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Message-ID: <694@astroatc.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jan 88 17:12:43 GMT
Organization: Astronautics Technology Cntr, Madison, WI
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	I know I don't have many hours logged in on Aegis Animator, yet and
would eventually be able to solve these questions myself, but I would
appreciate any help in the following areas.

	I'm working on an animation of a flying spaceship I designed with
sculpt-3d.  I took pictures of the ship at various angles and want to
pull them into animate.  I've learned enough so that I can load in a
background with the same palette as my pictures, and can pull the individual
pictures in and move them, etc.

	Now, My spaceship picture is a square that gets moved around, including
background colors.  Is there anyway to have animate not move the background
with the picture, like a brush in dpaint?  This way I could have the ship
land on a building...

	How can I get the ship to move, and then say a lazer beam to fire
from the ship at the same time?  The tweens seem only capable of doing one
movement at a time.

	What does one use masks for?  They are only one color, as far as I
can tell and seem to be related with what I want to do in my first question.

	Lastly, does anyone have any hints or tips on using the storyboard
for editing?  Can you use it to edit out tweens from a sequence within one
frame of the storyboard? 

	Any help will be greatly appreciated!  Thanx in advance.
--j
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jon wesener
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