Actually, there's a handy little utility for converting flic's to animated
gif's which I like to use in conjunction with dta.  You can find it at
http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~jlawson/graphics/

Ken

Mike wrote in message <360F2099.920332F4@aol.com>...
>Heh heh.  I'm not aware of any free gif makers, though PSP 5 will do it.
It
>will set you back around $70 US.  You can get a free demo from
www.jasc.com.
>
>There are a number of other tools listed under the animation FAQ at
>www.irtc.org.  It's a quick place to start.  My personal favorite for
making
>.avi is videdit, which is free from microsoft.  Combined with the indeo 5
>codec, it can make good quality videos that are pretty small.  The only
>problem with using videdit is that it needs sequenced .dib files, which are
>a flavor of bmp.  What I do is render tga's and then batch convert them to
>.dib using Paint Shop Pro.  It can also import .flc, which is good if you
>have animation created with DTA.  The down side is that flc are 256 colors,
>which doesn't look so hot.
>
>-Mike
>
>David Greaves wrote:
>
>> An .fli, an .avi, an .mpg - I don't care - so long as I can play it back
>> on my NT 4.0 system ;)
>> Ideally, I'd like a decent quality animation to wow the cats (they're
>> hard to impress you know!!) and a way of generating animated gifs for
>> the www.
>>
>> Now I've seen references to
>> cmpeg. DTA and mainactor (which may download sometime tonight ;)
>> but how do people normally do this stuff?
>> - and *much* more imprtantly where can I download from?
>> ftp.povray.org seems depleted - /pub/povray/utilities only has moray and
>> breeze in it :(
>>
>> David
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