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Animation settings
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Animation settings // Archive: Tech Forum
Post by splinters // May 24, 2008, 10:14pm
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Trying to add some real animation to my Buddy World project (not just animated gif's). I want a camera to zoom from the planet and through a black hole to the next part of the site.
The image is 1024x768 but this seems a little large for an animation but what settings are best for viewing this on the web?
I did this before but using the default settings it was real blocky. However, I need it pretty small for the web. Any ideas? |
Post by Tiles // May 24, 2008, 10:48pm
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The first thougth that jumps into my mind is flash and actionscript. Build your animation there. But i have no clue if it is a good advice. I hate flash. I have waited too many times for a flash menu to load i guess :D |
Post by Jack Edwards // May 24, 2008, 11:46pm
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Paul I think you're going to have to learn Silverlight or Flash... that's what they are used for. |
Post by splinters // May 25, 2008, 7:25am
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I was hoping you wouldn't say that Jack...:o
Oh well, I will shelve it for now and just make a static link.
Cheers anyway...:D |
Post by Norm // May 27, 2008, 5:47am
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trueSpace has the Flash plugin. Although at high fidelity, it is as large as most avi files would be. Using low quality settings though, you can get a fairly neat flash file to insert into webpage and use as link.
Few folks used this technique in previous versions of trueSpace. Perhaps it would work in this scenario Paul. |
Post by splinters // May 27, 2008, 6:55am
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Willing to give anything a try Norm. Any idea where I can get the flash.tsx without reinstalling tS? I can't seem to find it on the CD. |
Post by TomG // May 27, 2008, 7:45am
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The one thing about tS flash is it is still a "frame by frame" flash. The main element that saves download time with flash for the web is that it is procedural - rather than store the frames of the object moving to the left, instead just the object is stored, and the instruction set that will move it to the left (or scale it etc). This gives rise to a small download size, as frames are abandoned in favor of procedural code.
Unfortunately the tS flash will not let you do this - you'd need to construct your flash inside a flash building application. Or of course do the same thing in Silverlight.
So basically you would render one image from tS, then use flash or silverlight to make that rotate, magnify, move sideways etc - one image one time rather than one image per frame, with a small instruction set taking the place of those other frames. Effective, but does require the work in a full flash / silverlight authoring tool.
HTH!
Tom |
Post by Norm // May 29, 2008, 6:13am
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The flash plugin is not part of ts base installation. It is possible you have the plug in say ts5, ts6 or such. Point model side extension manager to its local if you find it. What was the name of it ... hmm ... tsFlash.tsx ... try a search of your hard drives to see if you have it. HTH
Willing to give anything a try Norm. Any idea where I can get the flash.tsx without reinstalling tS? I can't seem to find it on the CD. |
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