CompuServe Messages

I didn't take your messages the wrong way at all Greg, even if they were a little long winded 🙂 After capturing, printing, and reading your messages, I think I went a little too far on my frustration. I will agree that a standard for scripts is not too practical, but we could sure use a standard for animations playback. Even though the Director can only playback compressed animations created with Videoscape 3D, there is no reason why it shouldn't be able to play back animations created with Animate 3D, Silver, or other animation software out on the market. Now I don't blame the Director for this. I'm sure when Keith Doyle was writing his program, there were not too many 3D animation programs out on the market, so he had to choose one. So for the present time, I will have to make my animations using the BLIT command, and in fact I have already recreated the animations you probably have seen in those NewTek demo disks that have been floating around. So maybe I shouldn't have said that I couldn't use animation in my Director scripts. But you will have to admit that it would be a lot easier to take a 3D animation program of my choice, say Animate 3D, create the anim sequence, and use the playanim routine within the Director, than it would be to create the individual frames, and blit them to the screen. Some software is confusing enough as it is, and worrying about which animation compression scheme will work doesn't help any either. So even though I might have went a little too far in my first message, I still feel that some of it is valid.