> 
> On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:08:15 -0600, "Tom A." <tar### [at] my-dejacom> wrote:
> > I rendered a picture (in windows POV) at 800x600.  I then used the
> > preview to find a subset of the picture I want to animate.  I set up the
> > start_column, end_column, start_row, end_row fine.  But the subset is
> > rendering in the middle of an 800x600 black picture.
> 
> Have you compared preview window with image written to file ?
> IIRC it contains only subset. At least last time when I used subset of rows it
> worked this way.

The file generated is much smaller than the original picture (this could
be from run length encoding the black space, though). 

However, I was completely unable to look at the generated files: I tried
two viewers and both said the TARGA files were unreadable.  I'll retry
with BMP.

> 
> > I eventually want to write a program that will display the animation
> > over the correct part of the picture, so for efficiency, I'll want the
> > animation as small as possible.
> 
> But any compressed format of animation like gif, fli/flc, avi, mpg, asf
> animate only part with changes. So animation encoder/player should worry about
> it instead of you.

As long as it knows that "black" is invisible.
 
> > If there is no way, I'll write a program to extract the important part
> > out of the various frames, but I'd rather not have to do that.
> 
> Consider asking in animation group.

Thanks.
 
> ABX
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