Re: JavE flyboy.jmov

On Sat, 24 Nov 2001 22:20:31 +0100, Markus Gebhard <ukg...@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:

>MJP wrote:
>> 
>> ok, I have edited it to extend the time most of the text boxes
>> are on the screen, plus fiddled with color. Let me know what
>> you think.
>> 
>> http://www.bluedwarf.net/mikechat/jmov/flyboy.htm
>
>The dialog still is to fast for me :-( But the movie is cool - I like
>the credits most :-) - Thanks!

I have thought to do it without the dialog, maybe I will as it gets 
too clunky to have the delay between frames increased, and I didnt
leave myself any room to have the dialog show in two or more frames
per-text balloon. This jmov has already taken many hours to make for
the few moments it runs and so i wont do much more to it. If ever I 
make another, possibly longer one, I will have a better idea what to 
do with dialog. 

>
>And in this JMOV I see that the player needs an additional feature: Some
>indicator saying "playing" or so...

I could add "this movie will autostart" to the webpage too. With a note
to netscape users that they may need to hit reload to get it running.

>
>> Markus, will we be able to color individual characters? That
>> would have been nice in this jmov anyway.
>
>The answer is no, and I have done this decision a long time ago: 
>  I will not add color to JavE. I have played around with individual
>colored character when I was working on the image2ascii converter. At
>the first sight the result was cool, but then again no. It is the same
>thing as with black/white and color photography: The effect on a
>spectator of a color picture comes more from the color than from the
>shape, shades, etc. It is easy to impress people with colorful images
>but it is much more art with black and white. This is my personal
>opinion. Also I should add that I did a lot of black/white photography
>in former years.
>So I will not add color to JavE - but as the jmov player is open source
>anyone can try to enhancing it by adding a color option.
>

I see.

>Furthermore I still have not finished the work on the JMOV editor in
>JavE so I better concentrate on that (and other things). 

Please do.

>One more thing about colors: By not supporting colors in JavE there is
>an empty space where any other software developer can still do a lot of
>interesting things.
>Maybe I already have repelled (or demotivated) others with the overkill
>of features in JavE. Actually I don't like such monopolistic software
>and so I want to restrict myself (although it is not easy ;-)). As long
>as I make the rules for what new features will be added, there never
>will be color in JavE.
>

I see.

short: http://www.bluedwarf.net/mikechat/jmov/unicycle.htm
based on obascii I did

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