Re: Help required (any experts out there?)

llizard <lli...@iNOdirect.ca> writes:

> But if you are making a whole movie, then you should probably go the
> Java route that whoever made the StarWarsasciianimation used. Alas, I
> know nothing of it yet as it isn't viewable in Netscape3 and I am still
> refusing to upgrade (I have no reason). I have been able to see the
> StarWarsasciianimation though by looking at the Jar File and using the
> pagedown technique. (Hilarious!) 

It doesn't work in my netscape (4.x) either, but it runs in the 
appletviewer which comes with Sun's java development kit
(http://java.sun.com/).

> Doing a whole movie makes for a huge huge file. And I don't know if the
> Java style can be optimized. Meph, miK? Anyone else?

Holding a frame so that the text can be read would be easy enough,
but making small changes to a base frame is more difficult (although
possible), and may cause further problems such as:

It is much more difficult to edit an animation file in this format,
although this could be solved by writing the animation in full and
having another program to convert it to the compact format.

The amount of processing required to reproduce the whole frame from
the compact version may be too much for slower machines, or, if the
whole file is pre-processed before display, it may take longer than
the time saved by having a compact file format.

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