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- MakeAnim7
- (A utility to convert animations into ANIM7 animations)
-
- Written by Thomas Krehbiel
- March 1993
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-
- INTRODUCTION
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- The ANIM7 format proposed by Wolfgang Hofer (see accompanying
- spec file) provides MUCH better animation playback speed, which is
- especially needed for AGA-mode animations. The tradeoff is a larger
- animation file (ie. the compression isn't as good).
-
- So, here is a little utility to convert your existing animations
- into ANIM7 animations in a fairly straightforward manner. MakeAnim7
- can also read the ANIM8's that come from MorphPlus, so you can (and
- should, since ANIM7 is much better) convert them too.
-
- (This program requires 2.04, BTW.)
-
-
- DISTRIBUTION
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- MakeAnim7 is public domain. Do with it what you wish.
-
-
- USEAGE FROM SHELL
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- 1> MakeAnim7 [anim_file1] [anim_file2] [anim_file3] ...
-
- Each file will be recompressed as an ANIM7 and saved out with the
- same filename plus a "7". So, recompressing "mine.anim" would result
- in "mine.anim7".
-
- If no files are given, a file requester is presented (see below).
-
-
- USEAGE FROM WORKBENCH
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Double-click the (wonderfully artistic) icon. Select one or more
- animation files from the resulting file requester. Watch it go.
-
- Files are renamed as above.
-
-
- TECHNICAL NOTE
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- MakeAnim7 will always use longword encoding where possible. I determine
- whether it's possible or not by the width of the animation; if the
- resulting width (plus word alignment) "fits" in an integral number of
- longwords (without overlap), then longword encoding is used. This may
- or may not be the "correct" way to do it, but it sounded good at the time.
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