#Animation programs
16-Jan-92 21:31:31
Sb: #15014-#Animation programs
Fm: John Pendergrass 76246,676
To: Jonathan Hirschman 70274,2526
HAM-E animates …. uh …. sometimes good… sometimes not so good.
I would concede that DCTV *seems* to do a better (read 'faster') job of
building real-time anims than HAM-E, but I certainly haven't done any
rigorous tests. Just my perceptions from seeing others work.
But the difference was never fantastic. I also use PF/X to do my general
anims, and Director when I want to cram stuff into RAM and page-swap CHIP
buffers. Of course they are both *real fast* when doing that.
re frame rate…. I know I was getting about 15-20fps on a 1/2 screen,
non-interlace 256 color HAM-E anim early on. Other than that I do recall
always wishing that things were faster, but that's a pretty normal wish on
all the real-time stuff we do, right? 🙂
–jp–seattle–