CompuServe Messages

I've seen a similar flc problem in other programs on the PC. I think it was related to two things. First there is a field in the header that should be set to 3 (I think it's 3). This field is used to determine if the flc was closed properly (the header reflects the data). This might be your problem. Second, the frame count included the ring frame, and it shouldn't. There are really numframes + 1 since all animations must include a ring frame. No likely your problem but what the hey. Frames are stored as follows in a 2 frame FLC (numframes = 1): FRAME 0 (RLE compressed) FRAME 1 (SS2 deltas to apply to FR0, resulting frame is FR1) RING FRAME (SS2 deltas to apply to FR1, resulting frame is same as FR0) A player will display FR0, then loop on FR1 and the RING FRAME. Frame 0 is no longer used. One other problem I've found was Autodesk Animator Pro will crash if you create a FLC that has a custom block of data just before the first FRAME chunk. You would think a player would skip over unknown chunks, and most do, as long as it's a unknown "subordinate" chunk and not another type of frame chunk. Very strange. I found this out while creating FLC's that had a custom Audio chunks in them, I made it a sub chunk and the problem went away! For instance take this FLC: HEADER SETTINGS CHUNK TYPE (AutoDesk settings (optional)) FRAME CHUNK TYPE PSTAMP SUB CHUNK FRAME CHUNK TYPE PAL SUB CHUNK RLE SUB CHUNK FRAME CHUNK TYPE PAL SUB CHUNK SS2 SUB CHUNK If you stick a custom chunk between HEADER & SETTINGS CHUNKS it will crash some players. Adding sub chunks are no problem.