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#Seq. bitmaps into flic

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#116139From: Brandon BartlettAug 3, 1994 7:16 PM

Does anyone out there know of a piece of software or a utilty that will take sequentially numbered (ex: FILE_01.TGA, FILE_02.TGA, …) Graphics files on a hard disk and turn them into a .FLC or .FLI animation. I am trying to generate an animation file out of sequential frame grabs from a video source to be integrated into a 3D-Studio animation. Any help would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks in advance, — BMB

#116140From: Gary K. SimAug 3, 1994 7:40 PM

You can create an .IFL file (image file list) either manually or through DOS. See pages 3-46 and 3-47 for what this can do for you. If you have a lot of these files, you can make the IFL with the following DOS command lines (thanks to John K. Jordan, who sent me this info earlier this year…): dir MY*.tga /on /b > FORWARD.IFL dir MY*.tga /o-n /b > REVERSE.IFL This will make IFL's in either forward or reverse order from your sequentially numbered TGA files. Hope this helps you, at least it's free! Gary

#116249From: Brandon BartlettAug 4, 1994 10:55 AM

Thanks! That will help me out a lot! Brandon

#116157From: Aug 3, 1994 9:09 PM

Brandon: DTA, Dave's Targa Animator, written by the incredible Dave Mason, will do exactly what you need. It should be in the libraries here. Greg Pyros

#116253From: Brandon BartlettAug 4, 1994 11:01 AM

TThanks Mr. Pyros! I am looking forward to your classes at Atlanta's Autodesk University in October. See you then. Thanks, Brandon

#116296From: Aug 4, 1994 12:45 PM

Brandon: I'm looking forward to them myself! Greg Pyros

#116327From: John StetzerAug 4, 1994 2:17 PM

Out of curiousity, which one(s) are you going to be doing? Tryin' to finagle my way to AU (better chance of this than I had for Siggraph, I hope!).

#116407From: Aug 4, 1994 7:22 PM

John: I'm teaching the classes called: "How to Output to Video" (Or some such title) and "How to Create Excellent Animations" (They were really desperate on that one!) See you there! Greg Pyros

#116506From: John StetzerAug 5, 1994 9:22 AM

>>How to Output to Video…How to Create Excellent Animations B-b-bbbut I already_do_that! ;^} Oh, well, I_guess_ I'll show up anyway! (assuming, of course, the high muck-a-mucks here don't shoot me down) >>(They were really desperate on that one!) I don't think it's_that_much of a stretch :^). John 'got my fingers crossed' Stetzer JWS

#116554From: Aug 5, 1994 12:37 PM

John: Hope to see you there! Greg Pyros