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Title: ANIM8 specification, where ?
Post by: Jose on November 13, 2005, 04:19:05 PM

Hi.
1- Where can I find the anim8 specification ?
2- What is the latest anim specification ?
3- And wich one allows better quality ?

:pint:

Title: Re: ANIM8 specification, where ?
Post by: leirbag28 on November 13, 2005, 04:33:44 PM

 Hello Jose.......I think Anim8 was an animation format created by SCALA specifically for use with ScalaMM300 and 400 to speed up animations,  there is Anim8W and anim8L or Anim8_16 and Anim8_32

 I could be wrong though.

Title: Re: ANIM8 specification, where ?
Post by: platon42 on November 13, 2005, 05:25:24 PM

I'm not sure where you would find the specs, but as a reference, I would probably have a look at the source of xanim, which AFAIK also plays back anim8.

You can find the original documentation on IFF-ANIM in the RKM Devices book (should also be available online somewhere).

Title: Re: ANIM8 specification, where ?
Post by: Jose on November 13, 2005, 08:52:49 PM

I'll have a look at XAnim then but... come on, there must be someone outhere that knows this  :-?

Title: Re: ANIM8 specification, where ?
Post by: realstar on November 13, 2005, 09:18:35 PM

I seem to recall anim7 being a more common generally
accepted and used format than anim8. Not sure where
you can find detailed docs for either though. On
another topic, does anyone know of an anim player
that will work on gfx cards?

Title: Re: ANIM8 specification, where ?
Post by: JaXanim on November 13, 2005, 09:24:09 PM

The IFF-Anim8 specification was created by Joe Porkka of ASDG.
It is said to be slower than IFF-Anim7 and has certain peculiarities. For IFF-Anim8-16 format, the frame width must be divisible by 16 (or by 32 for IFF-Amin8-32 format, otherwise there will be a small scrambled area to the right of the screen when the anim is running.

You may find the stuff you need HERE (http://www.users.bigpond.com/james.jacobs/reg/ANIM.op8.txt).

Cheers,
JaX

Title: Re: ANIM8 specification, where ?
Post by: leirbag28 on November 13, 2005, 09:57:55 PM

@JaXanim
"otherwise there will be a small scrambled area to the right of the screen when the anim is running."

Wow, thanks Jax! now I know why all My SCALA anims have that stupid glitch at the top! it happens when I use Anim8L or 8W I think

from now on I will convert to anim5 and save it then try it in anim8.

also I jsut read the SCALA manual...Anim8 was NOT created by them......they created anim16 and anim32



If Amiga were Software instead of Hardware, What would it look like?    SCALA!

Title: Re: ANIM8 specification, where ?
Post by: SamuraiCrow on November 13, 2005, 10:24:19 PM

As a side note:  Anim8 came out before Anim7 but Anim7 is faster because it uses a 32 bit word size (useful for A1200/3000/4000) and supports AGA unlike Anim 5 which is stuck with ECS at most.

All of these formats are bit-planar and cannot be viewed with most graphics cards without conversion.

Title: Re: ANIM8 specification, where ?
Post by: JaXanim on November 14, 2005, 12:23:18 AM

Yea, I think Anim7 format is about the best for Amiga animations. I've used it for all the stuff on my website. These used MainActor Broadcast to compile and run. A nice programme.

If anyone's interested, please check them out and tell me if they run OK for you.

Cheers,
JaX

Title: Re: ANIM8 specification, where ?
Post by: leirbag28 on November 14, 2005, 05:27:40 AM

@JaXanim

Hey JaX!  please upload that Lily Pad green Leaf anim!  its worth it!  so cool looking and awesome colors............one of the best works I have ever seen with my own eyes......rendered on an Amiga?

you can make also a Quicktime full quality looping file!.
please upload it.................people nowadays download gigabytes of Movie files....so 100MB is nothing.

Title: Re: ANIM8 specification, where ?
Post by: Jose on November 15, 2005, 02:54:02 PM

@JaXanim

Thanks alot I'll have a look.