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In lugnet.cad.ray, Timothy Gould wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.ray, Tore Eriksson wrote:
> > I've changed priorities once again. The need of what I call standalone scripts
> > have turned my todo-list upside-down. And the Tween command has made all the
> > difference! After working all night, I finally made it work. That is, the first
> > of the three kinds of standalone scripts I've planned for. But hopefully the
> > most complicated. The other two will just use commands that LDA already
> > supports. All I have to do is let the program jump into a new script and when
> > it's done, find its way back to the next line of the main script.
> >
> > The idea is that the main script, here:"MyAn.txt", will call on another script
> > here:"mfWalk01.txt", every time the compiler shoots a frame. And after several
> > hours I have it to behave the way I've planned. --SNIP--
> > The compiler replaces "Self" with the object name from the call, in this case
> > "Minifig01". Normally, XRot would be a variable, but in this case (XRot, YRot,
> > or ZRot) it is a command. And the rotation angle is tweened to a value depending
> > on where in the table the Progress value fits. This means that we are not forced
> > to follow a mathematic formula or have to get ourselves into hopelessly
> > complicated if-statements! And the animated objects have individual Progress
> > "clocks" that can be started and stopped independent of eachother at different
> > times (=frames). The format is not bound to minifigs either. At least it suits
> > my way of thinking much better than POV programming. A much more obvious
> > time-line. (I wish it was possible to make the syntax more LDraw-like, but five
> > years of thinking and re-thinking has proved it impossible.)
> >
> > And the best thing of all: it works!
>
> --SNIP--
> > This is so exciting! It won't be long until CGI based Brickfilms are very easy
> > to create - at least for those who know how use LDraw! I think it's almost a
> > revolution.
> >
> >
> > /Tore
>
> This all sounds very cool Tore. I may have to give it a go sometime. One
> suggestion to you is to allow for different tweening systems. Sometimes you may
> want something other than a linear tweening and it would be nice to be able to
> do so.
>
> Tim
Thanks for the input, Tim.
I agree. Exponential functions for acceleration or fall would be nice to have.
Sinus and Cosinus functions will make smoother walks. The best would probably be
support for splines or maps, but that's way beyond my qualifications.
I'm not a very skilled programmer, so I just develop the syntax and a very
simple interface. If I suceed to make demos impressive enough, I hope some more
skilled programmer(s) will make better GUI's and import filters and so on.
But for tonight I hope to implement the two remaining functions needed before I
can realease the first "complete" beta.
/Tore
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