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- FLIPlay
- By Hugh Allan
-
- Introduction
- Welcome to FLIPlay. This program provides what I think you'll agree is
- the best available animation you'll see on a standard NeXTstation. It
- plays AutoDesks FLI format, as created by AutoDesk Animator and
- AutoDesk 3D Studio. So as you can guess the animation tends to be hand
- drawn or ray traced/shaded polygons.
-
- Installation
- Easy, just copy the FLIPlay.app app wrapper to /LocalApps or the Apps
- directory in your home directory, log out, and any file ending in
- .FLI/.fli's icon will change to the FLIPlay fli icon. Got that? How
- just click twice on it as you would any other file and the animation
- will display. A demo animation, bounce.fli has been included.
-
- Where to find FLI files:
- Best source I know of is the Screen Artists: Danger! Hot Stuff CD-ROM.
- This is an IS0-9660 conforming CD-ROM which is provided free, you only
- pay the cost of the media. Expect to pay around X3.50 for it. My copy
- contains 200 Megs of 320x200 256 colour VGA animations. FLIPlay plays
- 95% of these(even the ones with packet errors, tut tut).
-
- CIX, has a few, as does Compuserve, I don't know of any Internet ftp
- sites that carry these things, if you know of any please contact me
- and I'll include a list in this document.
-
- I'll upload a compressed directory of FLIs to Purdue with this, look
- for BestFli.compressed in Purdue submissions... It'll be big! Real
- big... *GRIN*
-
- Problems, and futures.
- Animation speed does vary somewhat. The player is optimized only to
- display the smallest changed rectangle, but it does need some more
- work. Also it could do with a control panel. It will write an update
- sometime.
-
- Also I have written Amiga based IFF ANIM players, so expect to see an
- ANIM player soon, as well as a grasp player.
-
- This app was written under 3.0, so I doubt it will work on any
- previoud versions, sorry!
-
- Also, if anyone has details of the DL animation format, or better
- still details of QuickTime(propriety I guess? Hmmm...). Or if anyone
- knows of any other animation formats, please mail me.
-
- InterNet: hallan%cix.compulink.co.uk@ukc.ac.uk
- CIX: hallan
- Mail:
- Hugh Allan
- Ness Castle
- Dores Rd
- Inverness IV1 2DJ
-