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Gareth Edwards (Gareth.Edwards@team17.com) wrote:
: Howdy folks,
: 
: I've done a 360 frame test render of one of my Lightwave anims, and now
: that I've compiled it as an anim7, I found that the files size it 15Megs.
: 
: This poses a problem, as I only have 14 Megs of memory 8^\
: 
: I've tried VMM with no luck, so could any one advise me of the best
: direct-from-disk anim players they've found.
: 
: I've tried all the ones on aminet (in the gfx/show subdir), but they all
: suck pretty hard.

If you're willing to generate a truly HUGE file, and have a fast HD, try out
'agmsfilm' - it generates a private animation format, which includes sound,
and spools if off the drive. Thing is, each frame is stored UNCOMPRESSED -
it leans entirely on the HD DMA for speed.

If you don't need sound, try 'biganim' - it's a pretty fast anim viewer off
of disk. At least for my stuff.

Also, of course, you might try massaging the frames to decrease the size of
each frame's delta - scale down, render with no dithering, or in a shallower
color depth - but then you *knew* that already.

    "But I don't want no tea. It gives me a headache." - Pete Puma
paul trauth: cartoonist, animator, programmer, raccoon.   raccoon@gs.net