Short: Requester animations for ReqAttack
Author: lehtom@sci.fi (Miikka Lehto)
Uploader: lehtom@sci.fi
Type: gfx/misc
Requires: ReqAttack
Distribution: Freely Distributable


General

14 different cool (??) animations for ReqAttack. 32 
color versions for AGA only users. 64 color versions 
for graphics card users or AGA users, who have 
maybe 128 color WB in use. ReqAttack can re-map 
colors if you have only 64 colors in use (with couple 
of locked colors), but never tested this. Not big 
difference between 32 and 64 colors anyway. Some 
anims are more or less ugly with 32 colors, but overall 
32 colors is enought. All animations are in two different 
size. 62 and 82 pixels or 82 and 102 pixels, depends
 of complexity of it. Choose you own. All animations 
created with Amiga.

reqattack.prefs file is included. Paste it to you own prefs 
file or replace original with it.

This package is freeware. If you edit them (better dithering 
etc...) and spread them, include my name somewhere.  

Suggestions, comments and new ideas are more than 
welcome.


Installation

Copy 64col or 32col drawer contents (or both...) to 
ReqAttack/Animlogos


Tips

When you test these animations, test them in practice !! 
Multiview with reqattack datatypes gives very poor quality 
(with my machine...). You get real quality only in practice !!

Seems, that 060 processor is enought fast to play even 
120*120 pixel animation. If it looks like, that you processor 
cannot play maybe 82 pixel animation well, you can do 
something like this... convert ReqAttack AnimBrush to 
ReqAttack brush-file with RAIM_Anim2brush. Now you get 
file, where all frames are in one big picture. CyberShow 
can read it, then save it as 24 bit IFF-picture. Resizing 
with only 32 or 64 colors gives bad result. Now you can 
resize it with ImageFX or similar tool to suitable size. After 
resizing convert picture to colormapped. Be sure, that 
used software saves colormapped picture with 64 or 32 
color palette, not with 256 color palette, as IFX 3.3 do. 
IFX 4.1 makes that right. Now save it as IFF and convert 
it  with RAIM_Convert tool. RAIM_Anim2IFF makes picture 
straight to IFF, but not works in my computer anyway. With 
256 color palette animation takes more room from hard disk 
and therefore takes more time to load. 

Consult ReqAttack help-files, before you use it's tools. 


Thanks

Specially to Georg Steger, author of ReqAttack. Now it is 
possible to use animations in amigas requesters. And use 
requesters straight from keyboard. Great package overall ! 
And thanks to whole amiga community of course.


Animations:

- boing_info ,global animation for global message-requesters 

- delete ,for delete requesters

- exclamanation ,very basic rotating exclamanation mark
- fire ,not so good fire-animation
- format ,nice animation for "ok to format" requester
- global ,rotating boing ball, for global requesters
- guru   ,skull and flaming backround, for guru-requester
- insert  ,for please insert disk requester
- mustinsert ,for you must replace requester
- lightning   ,hmmmm ... somehow bad quality in 32 colors. 
- query      ,basic rotating query sign)
- rw-error ,for read-write errors. Funny, bits bumps they 
                    heads to brick-wall
- stink ,for not a DOS-disk requester....
- write-protect ,basic write-protect animation

Enjoy ReqAttack, this package, you amiga and whatever !

Miikka Lehto