blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner) (11/22/88)
From article <275@antares.UUCP>, by jms@antares.UUCP (joe smith): > In article <1097@esunix.UUCP> blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner) writes: >>1) What's the format for the WINDOW= tool type? The 1.3 manual omitted this >> litte detail. > > Try the examples on page 1-2, where they talk about setting the tool types > on the SHELL or CLI icons. "WINDOW=CON:/0/0/640/200/FullSizedWindow". > >>2) How can I do an assign to the the current directory? > > 'ASSIGN HERE: ""'. Two quotemarks with nothing between them is an alias > for the current directory. Thanks everyone! Judging by the number of replies I recieved on this question, I guess I need to re-read all the manuals. :-) The demo I was try to get running on my hard drive is the "Walker Demo". It's a two disk animation that requres 2M of RAM. (Sound like some of rule-breakers mentioned in the KDC rules discussions?) It's a loop of the "The Empire Strikes Back" ATAT walking in front of an A2000. It's a pretty impressive piece that was shot frame by frame from a model with DigiView, and animated with The Director (sorry, but the author's name escapes me). It has plenty of impressive sound too. It always runs fine from the floppies (and takes FOREVER to load), but it crashes more often than not when run from the hard drive. For some reason it tries to write to the disk (and fails since I used the Lock command (a little paranoia can be a good thing :-)). It has no problem running from write protected floppies. Is there some problem with running a Director driven animation with the FFS and a hard drive, or is this demo particularly ill behaved? (There is one assign made in the floppy's startup-sequence, and I do this with my IconX script, and also assign both floppy volume names to the current dir. There are no other commands in the original S-S file other than some Echos.) -- Blaine Gardner @ Evans & Sutherland 580 Arapeen Drive, SLC, Utah 84108 Here: utah-cs!esunix!blgardne {ucbvax,allegra,decvax}!decwrl!esunix!blgardne There: uunet!iconsys!caeco!pedro!worsel!blaine (under construction) "Nobody will ever need more than 64K." "Nobody needs multitasking on a PC."
hrlaser@pnet02.cts.com (Harv Laser) (11/25/88)
The ATAT Walker animation was created by Brian Williams. He calls his
company "Imaginetics" - as far as I know he alone is the company.
A real talented computer artist who leans toward the same "ultra realism"
school favored by Jim Sachs. Like Sachs, Williams tends to create in only
the low-resolution 32 color mode and uses a similar if not the same color
palette.
I would not be at all surprised if you see a lot of Williams work show up
in a certain disk-based Amiga magazine soon. If you admire Brian's work
in the Walker animation there are a LOT of his other screens and anims
that are gettable. There's a full-disk self-promoting slide show from
Imaginetics that I'll be putting up on People/Link soon. He also did the
artwork for the Capone and P.O.W. games.
Harv Laser, Sysop, The People/Link AmigaZone. Plink: CBM*HARV
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<---open Push down while turning close tightly--->keithd@gryphon.COM (Keith Doyle) (11/25/88)
In article <1102@esunix.UUCP> blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner) writes: >Is there some problem with running a Director driven animation with the >FFS and a hard drive, Not inherently. I've been using it with 1.3 on a FFS hard drive and have noticed no ill effects. >or is this demo particularly ill behaved? Beats me. Without the script it's pretty hard to tell what is going on. He's probably accessing each disk by name, you may need two assigns to set wanim0: and wanim1: up correctly, and of course you'll need mod: defined and the projector's icon must also exist if you're clicking on the .film file icon. Keith Doyle gryphon!keithd
jbh@mibte.UUCP (James Harvey) (11/28/88)
In article <1102@esunix.UUCP>, blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner) writes: > From article <275@antares.UUCP>, by jms@antares.UUCP (joe smith): >> In article <1097@esunix.UUCP> blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner) writes: >>>1) What's the format for the WINDOW= tool type? The 1.3 manual omitted this >>> litte detail. >> >> Try the examples on page 1-2, where they talk about setting the tool types >> on the SHELL or CLI icons. "WINDOW=CON:/0/0/640/200/FullSizedWindow". >> >>>2) How can I do an assign to the the current directory? >> >> 'ASSIGN HERE: ""'. Two quotemarks with nothing between them is an alias >> for the current directory. > > Thanks everyone! Judging by the number of replies I recieved on this > question, I guess I need to re-read all the manuals. :-) > > -- > Blaine Gardner @ Evans & Sutherland 580 Arapeen Drive, SLC, Utah 84108 > Here: utah-cs!esunix!blgardne {ucbvax,allegra,decvax}!decwrl!esunix!blgardne > There: uunet!iconsys!caeco!pedro!worsel!blaine (under construction) > "Nobody will ever need more than 64K." "Nobody needs multitasking on a PC." I needed this information too, thanks! Now, how do I get rid of the window altogether? WINDOW=NONE doesn't seem to work. -- Jim Harvey | "Ask not for whom the bell Michigan Bell Telephone | tolls and you will only pay 29777 Telegraph | Station-to-Station rates." Southfield, Mich. 48034 | ulysses!gamma!mibte!jbh
andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) (11/28/88)
In article <2722@mibte.UUCP> jbh@mibte.UUCP (James Harvey) writes: >I needed this information too, thanks! Now, how do I get rid of >the window altogether? WINDOW=NONE doesn't seem to work. WINDOW=NIL: -- andy finkel {uunet|rutgers|amiga}!cbmvax!andy Commodore-Amiga, Inc. "Possibly this is a new usage of the word 'compatible' with which I was previously unfamiliar" Any expressed opinions are mine; but feel free to share. I disclaim all responsibilities, all shapes, all sizes, all colors.
alendorf@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Todd Michael Allendorf) (11/12/89)
I heard about this demo when I came back to school from summer vacation, but I've never seen it and can't find it on any ftp site. Does anybody out there have this demo and could email it to me or direct me to an ftp site with it. Thanks in advance!
harper@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (11/14/89)
>I heard about this demo when I came back to school from summer vacation, >but I've never seen it and can't find it on any ftp site. >Does anybody out there have this demo and could email it to me or direct >me to an ftp site with it. Me too! (harper@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu) or (harper@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu) Thanx.
castorca@EA.USL.EDU (Christian Castor) (10/15/90)
Anybody knows an FTP site in which I could find a copy of the Walker I demo? You now, the one in which the "Walker" passes in front of an A2000. (I found the demo at Compu$erve, but it would cost ~$20.00 of online time to download it!. Sheesh....) Thanx in advance. - Chris C --- sigfile.lzh 4604 bytes ----rwed 22-Sep-90 22:38:14 (That's a truly COMPACT .sig file :^)