How do I know how many frames are in an animation? The instructions for empanim require the number of frames and delay between them. Any help would be great. Thanks!

Incredibly we managed to track down the original author (Lee McGinty) of the Acorn Archimedes program from which we borrowed the dance data. He wrote it over 10 years ago, and we eventually found him on friendsreunited.com!

I'm pleased to say that he was happy for us to use the data, and Toby has written a nice visual which has several of the dancing men. It will be included in todays Alpha release, and all being well in the next public Beta.

Rob

todays Alpha release

Huzzah!

Well, the format seems to be 128 x 32 x 4 bits/frame, since the file is 401408 bytes my best guess would be 196 frames.

4 bits per frame for a 2-bit display? Seems a little wasteful if that's right. Wait, don't tell me, it's using a 2-bit alpha mask. :)

Bruno

I based my assumption on this post. He probably meant 4 colors instead of 4 bit colordepth. Ah well, assumption is the mother of all f**kups

4 bits per frame for a 2-bit display? Seems a little wasteful if that's right.

(Assuming you meant 4 bits per pixel...)

Correct. It is wasteful. But that's the way certain things are stored (such as the custom logos). I do not know exactly why. Although I will say that it made certain pieces of bit-bashing code easier in my logo editor.

Tres jolie.

(Assuming you meant 4 bits per pixel...)

Yes, 4 bits per pixel per frame. I'm just used to thinking "per pixel" for so many years that I virtually never write it. :)

Well, it's good to know in any case. Photoshop isn't the best program to manipulate pixmaps, but I've got a couple of really good (all things considered) pixel-pushing programs (IMage and ProMotion if anyone cares - both for Windows). Unfortunately there isn't anything that captures all of the former Amiga Deluxe Paint V nor Brilliance available to the general public for Win32.

Bruno