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You might check out 'Editor' by Hash Enterprises. It purports to be an anim converter tween formats.. Don't really know if it support Sculpt to ANIM-5. (BTW, Sculpt v 4.09 has ANIM-5 creation, if you didn't already know) (Hash Enterprises phone # 206-693-7443) I had the need to do what you are doing once (before 'Editor' was out) and had to use the Sculpt player to play r-e-a-l s-l-o-w and capture images one-by-one again, and then use another anim creator to put it back together… that was a long time ago, however. –jp–

Hi Jim. Here is the start and end of the doc file about a program written by a fellow Vancouverite – Ron Tarrant. ========================================================================= ANIMATION BRIDGE by Ron Tarrant The software, manual and all related materials for Animation Bridge (ABridge) are copyright ? 1990 by Ron Tarrant and Mythra-mations Animation and Software 902 West 17th Ave. Vancouver, B.C. Canada V5Z-1V4 Fixes compatability problems between animation editors and players that support the Anim-5 standard. Supported output formats are: DPaint III, Animation Station, Animagic, Animation: Editor (pre-v1.12), The Director, and Movie 2.0. Input formats are from any program that creates Anim-5 animation files including SA4D (v2.09), Turbo Silver 3.0, DPaint III, AniMagic, Photon Paint 2.0, Videoscape 2, PageRender 3D, etc. Shareware, Binary only. INTRODUCTION ———— Although there is a standard for IFF animation files now (referred to by most people as ANIM-5 or Anim opt 5) a lot of reader programs and editor/special-effects packages have problems with the variations of the format. For instance, some readers allow changing the colour map 'on the fly' while the animation is playing; others tend to abort or (even worse) crash if they find more than one colour map in a single animation file. Although these problems WILL eventually be cleared up by the companies who've released these products, in the meantime animators still have deadlines to meet and can't waste time pulling animations apart and reassembling them in order to get from one program to another. Enter, Animation Bridge, the interim solution. When you're working on an animation that starts, say, in a 3-D rendering [ MORE ]

[ continuation ] package, goes into a combination paint/animation package for some touch-ups, and then goes into another program to have some special effects added, it can be frustrating for you as an animator when one of these programs will not load your animation file or won't do the work required because of some bit of information that is either missing or extraneous. Animation Bridge addresses these problems of going between the various readers/editors of animation files that try very hard to adhere to the Anim-5 standard but, for one reason or another, don't… yet. In time, all these programs will have gone through upgrades or bug-fixes and will have no more problems loading and dealing with 'stranger' animation files. "Animation: Editor" (from Hash Enterprises Ltd.) is an example of one program that has had these problems addressed and the latest version (1.12 at this writing) will load all comers and deal with them more effectively. As we will mention again further on in this manual, Animation Editor is supported by Animation Bridge for versions older that 1.12, just in case you haven't got your upgrade yet. When the rest of the animation readers/editors have been upgraded and distributed, our program – Animation Bridge – will no longer be needed and it can become just another blank disk in your collection. Until then Animation Bridge serves as an interim solution to these problems. ================================ ..most of file omitted… – KC ================================ TOLL GATE ——— Animation Bridge is shareware, and of course you know what shareware is by now. If you use this software, especially if you are using it to help you earn money as an animator, please send a $20.00 MONEY ORDER to: Mythra-mations Animation and Software 902 West 17 Ave. Vancouver, BC Canada V5Z-1V4 We'll send you a version that isn't constantly interupted by a message [ MORE ]

[ continuation ] to send money. Sound like a good deal? I thought so, too. Other Contact Information: ————————– If you want to report a bug or communicate with us for any other reason you can post messages to Ron Tarrant at the following: RSI-Mindlink in Vancouver BC, Canada (604)576-1214 Usenet a976@Mindlink.UUCP ========================================================================= Also has Arexx control. Perhaps this is what you are looking for? I'm not sure whether this program is on CIS yet, else it could be uploaded in short order. Regards, Ken Cooper