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- From: jwalkup@terapin.com (Jeff Walkup)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: ANIM Splitter?
- Message-ID: <jwalkup.31ny@terapin.com>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 00:29:02 GMT
- Organization: BBS
- Lines: 40
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- Alright all you Animheads:
-
- Is there a program that will take an ANIM (Op5) file and break it up
- into seperate IFF frames? (I know there must be... but where/what?)
- I can't use DPaint becuase each frame in this animation has a different
- palette. In fact, that's why I want to break it up, so I can recombine
- it into an ANIM with a locked palette to be manipulated in DPaint. Not
- only that, but DPaint has this annoying bug that causes this particular
- HAM ANIM to be loaded in Hires... I don't know why. I've tried NewZap'ing
- the CAMG chunk, but that doesn't work. What's weird is that if I load
- this ANIM as a PIC, it loads correctly in HAM-Lace Overscan...
-
- Freeking computers... drive me nuts! ;^)
-
- PD solutions would be preferred at this time, but any good commercial
- program would be considered also. I've seen this one brandnew program,
- I think from PP&S(?), that's supposed to be an all-around ANIM builder/
- splitter/palette-locker/recombiner/manipulator... similar to the old
- Hash Animation Editor, but I can't remember the name of it exactly.
- "AnimLab" or something? If someone could point me toward this I'd surely
- send you thousands of email messages thanking you every day....
- (OK, just one.)
-
- Also, isn't there a way to make an ANIM with Imagine with a locked
- palette? I swear Imagine is supposed to ask you, when you begin
- rendering, if you want the palette locked, but for this animation
- it didn't at any time ask me that question. I was rendering in
- ILBM-12bit + HAM + Lace + ANIM format.
-
- I'm also wondering if there is a way to have Imagine lock the palette,
- NOT to the first frame, but to some other frame into the animation a bit.
- The first frame of this animation is almost blank, and so the palette
- would not be good to use for the rest of the animation.
-
- I swear I used to have the right tools around for this kind of thing,
- but using DCTV for the last coupla years has made me go soft!
-
- --
- Jeff Walkup - San Francisco, <jwalkup@terapin.com> - Berkeley
- Cheers and Happy New Beer!
-