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- DKBAnim
-
- This program replaces the DumpToIFF post processor for the DKBTrace
- program. The old version worked perfectly well, but it created a different
- palette for each picture. If you are trying to make an animation, however,
- most animation making programs don't support different palettes on each
- frame. The DumpToIFF program works in two stages:
-
- 1) Choose a colour palette for the picture.
- 2) Using the colour palette, draw the picture as well as you can
-
- It was easy enough to break this process into two different programs. The
- first program - ChoosePalette - reads a picture and generates a text file
- which contains the colours in the palette. It's run as follows:
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- ChoosePalette dump_file_name palette_file_name
-
- The palette file is a straight ASCII text file with the red, green, and blue
- values for each of the 16 colour registers printed on separate lines. The
- second program uses this colour palette to draw the picture in HAM mode.
- The format is:
-
- DumpToIFF dump_file_name iff_picture_name palette_file_name
-
- If the palette file name is left out, the program works like it did before -
- it calculates the best colour palette and uses it. You can, however, generate
- a colour palette by running the ChoosePalette program on one frame or by
- simply using an editor to choose the colours manually. The DumpToIFF program
- will then use that colour palette when it draws the picture.
-
- Hope this helps out all you animators out there.
- David Buck
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