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  Re: A small movie for my child  
From: Yannick Patois
Date: 25 Sep 2007 07:50:59
Message: <46F8F623.1090902@calvix.org>
Hi,

Leef_me wrote:
> Yannick Patois <pat### [at] calvixorg> wrote:
>> For last Xmass, I created a small 5mn animated movie for my child (who
>> was 3). It features a few letters walking on a page... Last month  I put
>> it on a web page.
>> It's available on the web at:
>> http://animation.altespace.org/
>> (the source code is somewhere on the same page if anybody is interested).

> Very nice indeed!

Thanks :) That's my first animation.

> I did notice some continuity errors,

They are a few when the camera move at the enter of the "Parc", and also 
some of the balloons at the end appears from nowhere...

Did you saw any other?

> I downloaded the source code archive and finally found the tool to
> unzip the BZ2 file format.

$ apt-get install bzip2
(who said it's easier under Windows? ;)

> Also, you have a file 'A.inc' and 'a.inc' which
> is a bit annoying because Windows treats them as the same file.

Anyway they are not used, that's some rubbish left during development (I 
didn't clean up the code). All the used code for the letters is under 
letter.inc, including the one for 'a' and 'A'.

> I'll be looking at all the different action you have in the source code.

In clockstuff.inc, there are a lot of things that could have been much 
more simpler if I have been using the spline.mcr macro that I discovered 
after.


	Yannick


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