#Still need FLC info
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Hi again.
I'm converting Mac PICS files to FLC format, and need to know the capabilities
of the FLC format. Specifically, I need to know whether FLCs are used in a
"Matte" mode in presentation-orientated software (not 3DS)
My main concern is whether FLCs are limited to a bounding box or whether a
colour is nominated as the matte channel. For example, a Mac user could place
a PICS animation of a coin spinning on top of any background as traditionally
cell 0 of the system palette defines the matte colour. How does this work with
FLCs? Or would it be limited to its bounding box?
FWIW, I'm doing animated bullet points, and the user wants to mix and match
backgrounds and bullets, and the backgrounds are bitmaps. I'm trying to avoid
matting every single combination myself <g> 😉
Hope you understand this – shout if you're confused.
TIA,
Matt
PMJI, I've done animated bullet points as flics (generated in 3DS, modified in
AAPro), and as far as I know, the question of making a single color invisible
should be addressed by your authoring/presentation software. The short answer
to your question is, yes, flics are limited to their bounding box. But in the
case of more advanced authoring products, such as Macromedia's, you can set
black (0,0,0) to be transparent. This will most likely only be the case in
tools which have direct internal support for playing flics, and not tools which
call Autodesk's player utility.
m.