🚀 go-pugleaf

> Hi, I've heard people mentioning animations they have created
> from pictures generated with POV-Ray. I was wondering what programs 
> they used to do this, and where these programs might be found by 
> FTP. Also is there a FAQ for this news group? Thanks.

its very easy. All you need are couple of programs, like
DTA*.* (dave's Targa Animator), PLAY79*.* (trilobyte fli player)
and a program that makes you a big batch file for the animation,
for example CAMPATH*.*; just a small correcture in the 
CAMPATH Basic Source Code needed, it should be "declare" instead
of "DECLARE" because POV 1.0 only takes lower case
I think there is a swich for using lower+upper case, but I'm not shure.

You can make the animation yourself, just take a POV Data File,
change the location <x y z> (thats a simple y-up coordinate system)
make lots of pictures with continuous coordinates, let pov calculate
the pictures and Name them ANIM001.TGA to ANIM099.TGA
then take DTA anim*.TGA /FFthefli.fli /W
that makes a Animation with given resolution and a 640x480 style FLI

Take the PLAY thefli.fli -m2
That way t the Animation on the Screen with VESA Mode 640x480x256

you can find all this Programs in the You Can Call Me Ray BBS
(708) 358-5611 HST and (708)358-8721 USR DS, I'm sorry I dont know
ftp places. you can find lots of POV utils and dat files there.

bye

dta and other files can be found on
ftp.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de pub/dkbtrace/util/