Visual Engineering - Visual Anim v2.35



SHORT DESCRIPTION

  This script will take an image and make a looping animation from
  it.


REQUIREMENTS

  Image Engineer v3.41 (Wision release 2)
  RexxMath.library (Aminet/util/rexx/RexxMathLib.lha)
  Sys:Rexxc/RX


INSTALLATION

  Archive where this file came from should be extracted to a
  directory where you installed Image Engineer.

  This script must be in IE:Arexx/


USAGE

  Activate a window of an image, you want to animate.
  Run the script.


  3 different effects (and their subeffects) are available; Bulge,
  Ripple and Twirl. They are Image Engineer's build in modules,
  which we are controlling now. Quality's "Best" and "Fast" are
  equal to those modules' "Colour avarage" and "Fast".

  "Adjust Render-options" means that you'll be later prompted with
  a Render-options requester, where you can for example choose, if
  you want to use locked palette for all frames or calculate new
  palette for every frame. There you can also set the type of
  rendering screen. Default screen is the one you've set in
  Prefs/General.

  For fast test use 8 frames (will be asked after first
  requester). For final one use frames you think is suitable.
  Remember: more frames, more size. This script will not save an
  animation file, but frames of it. Default dir is 'Ram:'. Files
  saved are Ripple.001 ... Twirl.0??.

  Remember to delete old frames, when making new anim. If you just
  made 18 frames long anim and are now doing 8 frames one, there
  will be 10 extra frames.

  Remember that when you are asked, if you want to use black or
  white background, the actual color is taken from pictures original
  palette. So, if there's no pure black/white available, then next
  closest one will be choosen. BG-color "Guess" means, that script
  look for a bottom right pixel and uses it's color value as
  background.


ARGUMENTS

  None at the moment.





HISTORY


  2.35

  Calls to external scripts had a minor bug.

  2.34

  Crashed if "Space around" was 0. Fixed.

  2.33

  Now subtypes save their configs in files visualanimbulge.cfg,
  visualanimripple.cfg and visualanimtwirl.cfg. They used to be
  saved in files visualbulge.cfg, visualripple.cfg and
  visualtwirl.cfg.

  2.32

  History started





WORLD WIDE WEB

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AMINET

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[generic]                 2799   10591  26.4% -lh5- 3eb5 Oct 14  1999 arexx/VisualAnim.rexx
[generic]                 1588    3155  50.3% -lh5- e3d9 Dec  9  1999 Notes/VisualAnim.notes
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