CompuServe Messages

>> I need to display a timer of clock on my rendered frames… Here is a cool trick. It will take a little time to set up, but it works great. I made small TGA files (black and white) of the digits 0-9 and an image of a box with a colon at exactly the right location (0:00). Next, build ifl's to cycle through the digits. ONES.IFL will look like this: 0.TGA 30 1.TGA 30 2.TGA 30 … 9.TGA 30 TENS.IFL will be similar (don't forget… stop at 59 seconds): 0.TGA 300 1.TGA 300 2.TGA 300 … 5.TGA 300 MINUTE.IFL 0.TGA 1800 1.TGA 1800 2.TGA 1800 … 9.TGA 1800 Now, knowing the image size, use the custom size/offset options in VP to line them up (together with the colon). I've skipped a TON of detail, but this should give you the idea. It offers tremendous flexibility in placement of the "clock", the color of the digits (use the b/w as an alpha channel with a bitmap or color entry), even the precision of your counter (you could advance it every tenth of a second or every 10 seconds with different IFL's). – Dave