this little animation is not meant to be artistic in any way. it is a
test for my tracking method. A while back in p.a-u I asked about the
matrix transform. I think I have gotten a little undestanding of it.
Basically, in this scene, a turret is placed at a location determined
via the trace() command. the gun the tracks the flying yellow ball. the
gun barrel and the turret are seperate objects and are controlled
separately.

I plan to make this a real scene, so stay tuned....   :-)

-paul

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p.s.
sorry the file is a bit big, I have not gotten proficient with mpeg
compression yet.... every time I make an mpeg, it looks horrible.. !!
\

-paul

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The turret looks somewhat like the Stumpy tank from Total Annihilation
A little on the fast side, but very neat

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"Paul Daniel Jones" wrote
>
> p.s.
> sorry the file is a bit big, I have not gotten proficient with mpeg
> compression yet.... every time I make an mpeg, it looks horrible.. !!
> \
>
Still looks impressive, either way :)

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I can't see it on my mac.  Apparently I don't have the codec.  mpeg is
horrible, yes, but at least I'd be able to view it.  Most AVI's play
fine on my machine, but not this one--which codec are you using?

Paul Daniel Jones wrote:
> 
> p.s.
> sorry the file is a bit big, I have not gotten proficient with mpeg
> compression yet.... every time I make an mpeg, it looks horrible.. !!
> \
> 
> -paul

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In article <39DF882A.323DBC99@zerotensor.org>, eri### [at] zerotensororg 
wrote:

> I can't see it on my mac.  Apparently I don't have the codec.  mpeg is
> horrible, yes, but at least I'd be able to view it.  Most AVI's play
> fine on my machine, but not this one--which codec are you using?

Hmm, it worked fine on mine...what OS/QuickTime version do you have? I 
have OS 9.0.4...

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i must apologize for the trouble, I really don't know much about the
different formats, I just make crunch the images into a format that looks
good and work on my PC. Can someone suggest a good program to make good
mpegs? right now I am using bmp2avi... which I don't really like too much.

it is tough to get feed back if no one can see you work... ;-)

-paul

Eric Andersen wrote:

> I can't see it on my mac.  Apparently I don't have the codec.  mpeg is
> horrible, yes, but at least I'd be able to view it.  Most AVI's play
> fine on my machine, but not this one--which codec are you using?
>
> Paul Daniel Jones wrote:
> >
> > p.s.
> > sorry the file is a bit big, I have not gotten proficient with mpeg
> > compression yet.... every time I make an mpeg, it looks horrible.. !!
> > \
> >
> > -paul

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in povray.binaries.animations, Paul Daniel Jones says...
> i must apologize for the trouble, I really don't know much about the
> different formats, I just make crunch the images into a format that looks
> good and work on my PC. Can someone suggest a good program to make good
> mpegs? right now I am using bmp2avi... which I don't really like too much.
> 
> it is tough to get feed back if no one can see you work... ;-)
> 
> -paul

Have you tried CMPEG? If you find the attached mpg acceptable: it was 
done with it. Only thing is you have to start with uncompressed TGA...
Hope this helps.
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Hey Thanks a lot... that looked really good.

-paul

Sander wrote:

> in povray.binaries.animations, Paul Daniel Jones says...
> > i must apologize for the trouble, I really don't know much about the
> > different formats, I just make crunch the images into a format that looks
> > good and work on my PC. Can someone suggest a good program to make good
> > mpegs? right now I am using bmp2avi... which I don't really like too much.
> >
> > it is tough to get feed back if no one can see you work... ;-)
> >
> > -paul
>
> Have you tried CMPEG? If you find the attached mpg acceptable: it was
> done with it. Only thing is you have to start with uncompressed TGA...
> Hope this helps.
> --
> Regards,  Sander
>
>                Name: Out4.mpg
>    Out4.mpg    Type: Mpg File (application/x-pn-mpg)
>            Encoding: x-uuencode

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Chris Huff wrote:

> Hmm, it worked fine on mine...what OS/QuickTime version do you have? I
> have OS 9.0.4...

I'm running Quicktime 4.1.2 on OS 9.0.4.  Perhaps some sort of network
error or the like.  No matter, Sander's mpeg-ed version played just
fine.  (Thanks, Sander).


-Eric

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