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(...) Yep, I've encountered this before and "solved" it the same way. LPUB will render this correctly, however. Place a CLEAR statement at the beginning of each step, then load the master file in LPUB and ask it to generate instruction steps without (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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(...) Oh, almost there... This is what L3P produces: #declare _40_MyAn_dot_dat = union { // "MyAn" - (MyAn) // Name: @MyAn.dat // Author: Tore Eriksson // LDraw Animation Master File // Frame 000 object { _40_myan000_dot_dat matrix (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: Automated minifig walking animation include file for Povray (Was: 8002 destroyer)
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(...) I think I have the same idea as you have. The function (method?) "<Minifig01>.MFWalk = 40" is unfortunately hard-coded inside the exe file. I don't want it that way. I want it to be an external, easy-to-make module from a library, and the next (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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(...) My program was written a couple of years ago. The primary idea was not the program itself, but to create a syntax that could cover all needs for animation. There are many programmers at Lugnet much more skilled than me, so I thought that if (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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(...) I have been using gif movie gear. It is easy to use can change anount of colors, window size, clock settings and will make repetative colors transparent to keep file size down. Not free but has a time trial. (URL) Steve Krass (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.animation)
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Hi Tore, I gave your program a spin. I'd say we are not that far away in conceptual terms. "My aim is to let the program I'm currently working on take on the grunt work." Is pretty much what I'm thinking. And the whole "march.exe" idea is right on (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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Hi Tore, Thanks for your kind words. I'll look into your system once I get home later tonight and hopefully will have some comments. It does look very intriguing to say the least. And as far as replicating its functions with POVray script, I've (...) (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation, FTX)
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(...) I am a really impressed. But I'm still not convinced that we can make a really flexible system for animating our LDraw based models using POV's built-in animation support. The clock statement is causing me problems. A frame_index variable (...) (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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(...) You make a good point. still ... Someone might find some use for (URL) this include file> that I just wiped up (link goes to instructions and download page); even if it only enables us to put together simple walking animations (with (...) (21 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation, FTX)
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| | Re: A Really Flexible LDraw/POV Animation System? (Was: 8002 destroyer)
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(...) as (...) While this certainly has its possibilities, I'm not overly excited yet. An animation is a film, and "picking between several pre-defined choices" would pretty much take all life out of it. It's great for "mechanical" animations like (...) (21 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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"Franklin W. Cain" <franklin_cain@yahoo.com> schreef in bericht news:Ht3vAB.1Ktw@lugnet.com... (...) software (...) cannot (...) In the (URL) community there are quite a few fans of VideoMach ((URL) It's a 30-day trial; after that there's a button (...) (21 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.animation)
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Hi Franklin, Prosumer open source or freeware options: (URL) Virtualdub> for basic video manipulation (i.e. converting image sequences into video file) (URL) Zwei Stein> for video compositing (move over, Premiere) (URL) Jahshaka> (working but Alpha) (...) (21 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.animation, FTX)
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(...) I've used Slide Show Movie Maker to some success in the past. Have a look: (URL) (21 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.animation)
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You can use ImageMagick to create gif's pretty easily. (URL) Andy (21 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.animation)
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Hello Franklin, Google for BMP2AVI or BMP2AVI32. Play well Carsten "Franklin W. Cain" <franklin_cain@yahoo.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:Ht3vAB.1Ktw@lugnet.com... (...) software (...) cannot (...) (21 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.animation)
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OK, I finally figured out how to get POVRAY to generate all the snapshots ("frames") for an animated sequence. Unfortunately, I don't have any software tools to take these images and combine them into a GIF, PNG, or MPEG. What do I need to download (...) (21 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: A Really Flexible LDraw/POV Animation System? (Was: 8002 destroyer)
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I've modified Steve's file so that it will now pose just about any minifig you throw at it. On the negative side, the colors of the minifig's "clothing" has to bet re-set manually via variables On the positive side, it will recognize skeletons! I've (...) (21 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: A Really Flexible LDraw/POV Animation System? (Was: 8002 destroyer)
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That is very cool - combined with the minifig generator and a (potentially POVray-clock-based) keyframer, we would have a minifig animator. However, the primary function of Blobman, which is to codify "poses" into data - basically what you have (...) (21 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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(...) I am so excited about this. I went thruogh the program and discovered arrays and how they work. This is just a start. I am just learning like most others. Try it. Enter the pose you want at the top of the file. They are described. Here is the (...) (21 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: A Really Flexible LDraw/POV Animation System? (Was: 8002 destroyer)
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(...) Thanks for the link. I downloaded and ran this program. Very cool. Looked at the codes and I think I can get this to work for minifigs. Wish me luck. (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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