From megalith!nobody@uunet.UU.NET Tue Apr 26 03:26:39 1994 Received: from relay2.UU.NET by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.5) id AA29697; Tue, 26 Apr 94 03:26:27 PDT Received: from uucp5.uu.net by relay2.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AAwngz11127; Tue, 26 Apr 94 06:26:19 -0400 Received: from megalith.UUCP by uucp5.uu.net with UUCP/RMAIL ; Tue, 26 Apr 1994 06:26:25 -0400 Received: by megalith.miami.fl.us (V1.16.20/w5, Dec 29 1993, 21:22:55) id <1boh@megalith.miami.fl.us>; Tue, 26 Apr 94 04:05:07 EDT -0400 Return-Path: Sender: errors@megalith.miami.fl.us Errors-To: errors@megalith.miami.fl.us Warnings-To: errors@megalith.miami.fl.us Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Reply-To: zeus@jupiter.oche.de (Markus Moenig) Message-Number: 793 Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.announce X-Newssoftware: CSAA NMS 1.2 Organization: Private UUCP Point Message-Id: Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 04:05:05 -0400 (EDT) From: zeus@jupiter.oche.de (Markus Moenig) (CSAA) To: announce@cs.ucdavis.edu (CSAA-Submissions) Subject: MainActor1.5 Status: R TITLE MainActor VERSION 1.5 AUTHOR Markus Moenig moenig@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de DESCRIPTION MainActor is a modular animation package. It allows you to create,edit,time and play animations of the provided animation formats. You can convert any format into any other, allowing you to convert for example a range of pictures into an animation format of your choice, or resave the frames of an animation to an picture format, or simply to convert different picture formats. The following modules are included in this release: Animation Loader Max. Depth Animation Saver ---------------- ---------- --------------- Universal Universal_Merlin Universal_PicassoII Universal_Retina AVI 8 Bit DL 8 Bit FLI 8 Bit FLI FLC 8 Bit FLC IFF-Anim3 8 Bit IFF-Anim5 8 Bit IFF-Anim5 IFF-Anim7_16 8 Bit IFF-Anim7_16 IFF-Anim7_32 8 Bit IFF-Anim7_32 IFF-Anim8_16 8 Bit IFF-Anim8_16 IFF-Anim8_32 8 Bit IFF-Anim8_32 IFF-AnimBrush 8 Bit IFF-AnimJ 8 Bit Picasso 8/16/24 Bit Picasso Real3D 8 Bit Picture Loader Picture Saver -------------- ------------- Universal Universal_Merlin Universal_PicassoII Universal_Retina GIF 8 Bit IFF 8/24 Bit IFF PCX 8 Bit Workbench-Icon 4 Bit Workbench-Icon Sound Players ------------- IFF-Sample New Features of Version 1.5 : ----------------------------- - Major hd playback improvements of all modules. Average speed increase is about 2 - 5 times the speed of v1.2, giving you maximum performance. - Sound Support. MainActor now has Sound Modules which allow you to associate sound effects to every frame of an animation. This works for pictures too. The sound information is module independent, that means that you could use the same sound information ("#?.snd") on every module type MainActor supports. - New Real3D, IFF-Anim3, IFF-AnimJ, Picasso and AVI animation loader. - The usage of the Append function is now easier. The saver module now recognizes automatically if the destination project is of the right type. That means that you can now use the universal modules for appending. - Many smaller improvements. General Features: -Intelligent caching/tracking, MainActor can cache your animations and picture lists, if you have not enough memory it will directly access your data from any device. This makes it for example possible to create/edit/play a 400MB animation on your 2MB Amiga. -If you run OS 3.0 or higher, you will get an extra speed bonus on animations through the use of the new graphics routines. For OS2.0/2.1 users there are specific routines in the modules, which will give them the best playback speed possible on their system (and my knowledge :)). -Under OS 3.0 you will get the extra features of showing pictures or playing animations in a scrollable, resizable window on your MainActor or Workbench screen. The colors will be properly adjusted to your screen attributes. -MainActor has an arexx port, nearly all functions can be accessed through it. You can for example scale or dither whole animations through the use of an image processor, scripts are included. HOST NAME MainActor should be available on all Aminet sites. For Example : Scandinavia ftp.luth.se 130.240.16.3 Germany ftp.uni-kl.de 131.246.9.95 Germany ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de 130.149.17.7 USA ftp.wustl.edu 128.252.135.4 DIRECTORY /pub/aminet/gfx/edit FILE NAME MainActor1_5.lha SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS OS 2.0+ PRICE The shareware fee is $50 or $25 DISTRIBUTABILITY MainActor is shareware. -- Markus Moenig zeus@jupiter.oche.de IRC-Nick: shabby markusm@tolkien.adsp.sub.org Somewhere in Germany moenig@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de -- Read all administrative posts before putting your post up. Mailing list: announce-request@cs.ucdavis.edu. Comments to CSAA2@megalith.miami.fl.us. MAIL ALL COMP.SYS.AMIGA.ANNOUNCE ANNOUNCEMENTS TO announce@cs.ucdavis.edu.