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HAME color cycling

    17-Apr-92 21:33:30
Sb: HAME color cycling
Fm: john meggie 70353,2367
To: Black Belt Systems 76004,1771
Hi Ben. I wonder if you can help me with a little problem. I am trying to use my HamE to make a video for work (I am a Technical Instructor at the Customer Training Center for Pratt & Whitney, a major manufacturer of jet engines). I have some nice 24 bit, 3-D animations that I cooked up in Real 3D. I want to show fluid flow into various valves and actuators with color cycling. I figured I would load the anim frames into a HamE Paint program and paint in the cycling fluid flow. Well I am having only moderate success. I have HamE Paint, HamE Workshop and SpectraColor HamE. My questions are: – Am I correct in my assumption that I must play back the anim in the program that created the cycling. It appears none of the cycling formats will play in a program such as DPaint or Pageflipper(PFX). – Will the HamE Paint program display in overscan? Your cycling and glow ranges in that program are the best of the three, but no o'scan. – What can I do about the fact that the palettes generated by IP and the Paint program scatter the colors about, making cycling of existing colors difficult (at best)? – With all the new animation features available (and coming) in IP, should I concentrate on creating most of the work in IP and go to a paint program only to turn on color cycling? HamE Workshop doesn't do O'scan or cycling very well. Spectacolor is pretty good but only has -ONE- cycle range. Thanks for any assistance. P.S. When (and where) you gonna be at WOA in NYC? John