Here's an old animation I made, before there was motion_blur. I did it by
using multiple copies of the same object with more transparency. I tried to
redo this in MegaPOV, but either the trails were to short, or you couldn't
see a gradient, and ended up with a blurred streak. I liked neither, so I
stuck to my old method. If someone can improve the motion blur to work like
in this animation, I would be very greatful. Enjoy.

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Attachments:
Download 'magia.zip' (43 KB)

In article <3879fd06@news.povray.org>, "TonyB" 
<ben### [at] panamaphoenixnet> wrote:

> Here's an old animation I made, before there was motion_blur. I did it by
> using multiple copies of the same object with more transparency. I tried 
> to
> redo this in MegaPOV, but either the trails were to short, or you 
> couldn't
> see a gradient, and ended up with a blurred streak. I liked neither, so I
> stuck to my old method. If someone can improve the motion blur to work 
> like in this animation, I would be very greatful. Enjoy.

Interesting.
I did an example scene a while back with ways of getting different blur 
effects from MegaPOV motion_blur, I posted it in one of the scene file 
groups. You might find it helpful.

-- 
Chris Huff
e-mail: chr### [at] yahoocom
Web page: http://chrishuff.dhs.org/

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>Interesting.

Good. :)

>I did an example scene a while back with ways of getting different blur
>effects from MegaPOV motion_blur, I posted it in one of the scene file
>groups. You might find it helpful.

I knew someone had done that. I forgot to check it out though. I'll go see
what I can learn. Thanks.

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Could you please post an MPG?  I cannot see it after going to the trouble of
dl/ing your file
) :-p

TonyB wrote:

> Here's an old animation I made, before there was motion_blur. I did it by
> using multiple copies of the same object with more transparency. I tried to
> redo this in MegaPOV, but either the trails were to short, or you couldn't
> see a gradient, and ended up with a blurred streak. I liked neither, so I
> stuck to my old method. If someone can improve the motion blur to work like
> in this animation, I would be very greatful. Enjoy.
>
>                    Name: magia.zip
>    magia.zip       Type: Zip Compressed Data (application/x-zip-compressed)
>                Encoding: x-uuencode

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I clearly stated in the title that it was a FLC. Look around for AAPLAY. I
don't think MPEG would be very kind to this file.

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Look around for AAPLAY. I
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if you have paint shop pro 6, you can play in the animation shop that comes
with that.

i did have a fli flc codec for media player, but not anymore...

Rick

"TonyB" <ben### [at] panamaphoenixnet> wrote in message
news:387a604e@news.povray.org...
> I clearly stated in the title that it was a FLC. Look around for AAPLAY. I
> don't think MPEG would be very kind to this file.
>
>

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Hope I'm not being too much of a brute, BUT,

those who cannot read html and Vcards in their news readers ought to download
Netscape Navigator and purchase Microsoft Windows,

right?.

Or, we can respect that some people have various limitations on what kind of
software they are ALLOWED access to, or have personal and political preferences
for liking and disliking certain software companies.  We ought to meet on a
common ground where we can all see all the postings, no? MPG is the key to this
common ground.

Rick wrote:

> if you have paint shop pro 6, you can play in the animation shop that comes
> with that.
>
> i did have a fli flc codec for media player, but not anymore...
>
> Rick
>
> "TonyB" <ben### [at] panamaphoenixnet> wrote in message
> news:387a604e@news.povray.org...
> > I clearly stated in the title that it was a FLC. Look around for AAPLAY. I
> > don't think MPEG would be very kind to this file.
> >
> >

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I'm sorry if I caused you any discomfort, Greg. I hold you in high regard as
a respected member of this community. I never want to get anybody mad. I was
under the impression that you were a slave of the Windows OS, and
recommended AAPLAY. I think there are players for other OSes as well. For
Linux I've heard of xanim (someone help me if I'm wrong here). FLC is a
classic (old) format, and I have tons of files encoded with it, mine and
many by others. I like it because it uses 256 colors (small files) and I can
control the frame-rate of playback. I think that MPEG would compress the
**** out of this tiny image, and it would be best to leave it as is. I
assumed everyone here had some way of playing it or getting a player for it,
as, like I said, it's a classic format. Sorry. Have a nice day. =)

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TonyB wrote:
> 
> For Linux I've heard of xanim (someone help me if I'm wrong here).

For UNIX in general and for LINUX.

Marc

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Marc Schimmler

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In article <387c8fbc@news.povray.org>, "TonyB" 
<ben### [at] panamaphoenixnet> wrote:

> I think there are players for other OSes as well.

QuickTime 4.0 worked fine for me, on Mac OS 8.6(I haven't upgraded to 
Mac OS 9 yet, I might wait for Mac OS X).

-- 
Chris Huff
e-mail: chr### [at] yahoocom
Web page: http://chrishuff.dhs.org/

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Sorry back. As I said, I hope I wasn't being too much of a brute. Huge tempest
over a tiny principle, I made.

TonyB wrote:

> I'm sorry if I caused you any discomfort, Greg. I hold you in high regard as
> a respected member of this community. I never want to get anybody mad.

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>QuickTime 4.0 worked fine for me, on Mac OS 8.6(I haven't upgraded to
>Mac OS 9 yet, I might wait for Mac OS X).

Great. BTW, OS X looks and sounds very cool. (Move this to off-topic if you
want to keep talking about it. I have a link to an article.)

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Ok, new thread started in .off-topic.

-- 
Chris Huff
e-mail: chr### [at] yahoocom
Web page: http://chrishuff.dhs.org/

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Chris Huff wrote in message ...
>In article <387c8fbc@news.povray.org>, "TonyB"
><ben### [at] panamaphoenixnet> wrote:
>
>> I think there are players for other OSes as well.
>
>QuickTime 4.0 worked fine for me, on Mac OS 8.6

For those people who use older versions of MacOS, GraphicConverter can play
FLI/FLC files.

Mark

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Ken and team, could someone please put a link to p.o.t on the page:
povray.org/groups.html

Thanks, I don't know how to get to it unless it's on that page.

Chris Huff wrote:

> Ok, new thread started in .off-topic.
>
> --
> Chris Huff
> e-mail: chr### [at] yahoocom
> Web page: http://chrishuff.dhs.org/

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"Greg M. Johnson" wrote:
> 
> Ken and team, could someone please put a link to p.o.t on the page:
> povray.org/groups.html
> 
> Thanks, I don't know how to get to it unless it's on that page.
> 
> Chris Huff wrote:
> 
> > Ok, new thread started in .off-topic.
> >
> > --
> > Chris Huff
> > e-mail: chr### [at] yahoocom
> > Web page: http://chrishuff.dhs.org/

Hi Greg! 

You use Netscape 4.04. Let's think. Either you have a button on the icon
row with the title join or under menu FILE->subscribe

Then a window should appear where the newserver is given. i have
news.povray.org right now otherwise you wouldn't be able to read it.
I have 4.61 yet so I have to guess from what's here available. You can
somehow look there for new groups. This is what you should do next. If
you start this povray.off-topic should be on the list. Then add it with
the standard procedure (at least here in 4.61) to your subscribed
newsgroups.

Hope this one helps.

Marc 

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Marc Schimmler

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In article <387d70f5@news.povray.org>, "Mark Wagner" 
<mar### [at] gtenet> wrote:

> For those people who use older versions of MacOS, GraphicConverter can 
> play FLI/FLC files.

And is always a good program to have. It is far more than just a 
converter program.
The web site is here:
http://www.lemkesoft.de/

-- 
Chris Huff
e-mail: chr### [at] yahoocom
Web page: http://chrishuff.dhs.org/

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