CompuServe Thread

DP III and Fantavion

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#24939From: Neil WickNov 23, 1989 12:02 AM
Fantavision doesn't use anim files at all. Fantavison works with "structured objects." When you save a Fantavision file, it contains descriptions of the outlines of objects and whether they are filled. When you reload the file, it reconstructs the picture from these outline descriptions. Moving points on the outline is what enables the program to do tweening. Only the key frames are saved in the file; the rest are calculated as the file is displayed. thousands of little dots, each of which can have its own colour from the available palette. If a conversion utility existed, it would have to look at your DPaint frames and trace outlines around each group of identically-coloured pixels. This would likely be very impractical as 1 picture could contain thousands of such groups of objects.