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Date:10/94
SUBJECT: ANIMATED FLAGS:
WE THOUGHT WE SHOULD SUBMIT THESE SAMPLE ANIMS IN CASE ANYONE WAS
INTERESTED IN HAVING CUSTOM FLAGS RENDERED FOR THEIR OWN PROJECTS.
WE PLAN TO DO A WHOLE BATCH OF THESE FOR A CDROM PROJECT BUT
ANYONE WHO CAN SUPPLY A 640 x 512 256 colour graphic file can have
it converted into a similar type anim NOW.
The graphic file you should send should ideally be a 256 colour
640 x 512 HIRES INTERLACED screen or as close as you can get.
Then convert it into a LOW RES-NON INTERLACED 256 Amiga screen or
better still convert it into a 256 PC GIF FORMAT file from this
LOW RES-NON INTERLACED mode.
Once that is done that is as much work as you need to do and
you have to then decide what mode you want the Anim Flag rendered
in as 640 x 512 PAL HIRES INTERLACED is what most of these flags
are in as that gives a nice sharp picture without becoming
too slow to ruin the animation effect on base A1200/CD32 machines.
An animation rendered in a LOWER RES MODE would be ideal if you
required a nice postage stamp sized flag as by loading the low res
anim into a HIRES screen mode via most Paint packages as you know
will convert it automatically from one graphic mode to another.
It is possible to do much larger anims that fill a full hi res
screen but you start to jack up the rendering time and it require a much
faster Amiga to retain the proper animation effect, so unless your
hardware matches this I would advise the standard size anim for
general use.
O.K. If you want a FLAG anim, get your graphic file ready......small
defects wont show up so your image does not need to be perfect.
Once the image is complete convert it as described(if possible)
and send it to us on a disk....a 1.76Mb HD disk is ideal but
880k disks will be good enough. If you have any special requests
please say and we will try to meet your requirements if time
permits.
We can do either two separate flags in either LOW RES OR HI
RES INTERLACED MODE OR DO ONE FLAG BUT RENDER IN BOTH MODES
SO GIVING YOU A ANIM OF TWO DIFFERENT SCALES/SIZES.
THE COST: US$7 or £4-00 (cash please as bank charges would eat up
cheques) if you are outside the U.K. and if you are in
the U.K. £3-00 will cover rendering, file conversion,
postage etc and the time to do all this.
All good renderings will eventually appear on a CD rom and a
similar spinning globe/sphere anim will probably be a good
complement to this flag anim as basically any texture from
a tennis ball to a golf ball or a photograph of the earths
surface could be turned into a high quality spinning anim.
Anyway hope you liked these anims as we have lots of other
anims we could release....Rise of the Robots...spectacular,
but if nobody is interested then we wont waste our time or
yours.
If you are a bit of a software expert we could do with some help in
converting some software to better match a whole range of low cost
hardware that we have developed over the last couple of years so
please get in touch if you are interested in making some money.
We will try to put full details of this and other interesting
info on the anim disks we return as there should just be enough
room for another text file.
Please always send a disk plus return postage in any enquiries
as we can't and won't reply without them.
Where and who to send to:
GSB , 8 PARK TERRACE, TULLIBODY, CLACKS., FK10 2QD, SCOTLAND , U.K.
Better go and thanks for your interest.
P.S. Playback speed depends on the utility you use to view these anims,
as there can be an incredible difference in playback speed so
please select the speed and the program to suit your speed of
machine to obtain the best animation effect...ie not too fast or
too slow.