Notes for "lwwf2anim" Ernie Wright ernie@gaspra.pd.com 7 Nov 94 lwwf2anim converts LightWave wireframe preview files into ANIM-5's. The program operates in two modes. In interactive mode, it displays a control panel where you enter the input and output filenames and set the foreground and background colors. The program displays the preview as it's being converted. In batch mode, the program is started from a shell (or called from a script) with filename arguments, and performs the conversion without a display. If you start the program from the Workbench, or from a shell without any arguments, the program opens in interactive mode. To run it in batch mode, start it with the command line lwwf2anim The preview image format is a single uncompressed bitplane, divided into fields. The image is longword-aligned for faster playback, and this causes some extra stuff to be recorded on the left side of the image if the pixel width of the preview window doesn't happen to be a multiple of 32. lwwf2anim can't crop the image (without guessing, anyway) because the file header doesn't say what the actual (cropped) image width should be, but you can easily load the ANIM it produces into DPaint or any image processing program that handles ANIM-5. Feel free to give this program to others. Don't charge for it. Don't include it with things you charge for before asking me. Do include this Notes file. I think the program works as intended and won't cause any harm, but, as they say, you use it at your own risk. Let me know if you have problems. Not that I'm offering tech support for this free little thing, but the program hasn't been run on many systems yet, and if something that's easy to fix comes up, I might do the fix.