Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp From: Elliott Oti Subject: Re: Allegro, DJGPP and large scale animation Sender: usenet AT phys DOT uu DOT nl (News system Tijgertje) Message-ID: <35D8E156.5D6D@stud.warande.ruu.nl> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 02:05:10 GMT Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: <35D61BC0 DOT AA8A2BDA AT nettally DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Organization: Where ?!!! Lines: 23 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Bruce Ferguson wrote: > > I was curious. Using Allegro along with DJGPP is there any > preferred method of performing LARGE scale animation with any of the > formats.. I am talking like a full screen animation like a cloud scene > or something of that nature.. I have been using just .tga or .lmp > compressed and then grabbing those and putting them in a dat file and > blitting the images to the screen after making like 20 pics of the same > image with minor changes in them and using a rest(100); in between > those. Is there a better more preferred method that is lax on the > memory and has a nice effect to it? If so could someone fill me in? I > would be happy to hear any suggestions or comments on this and could you > explain to me how I would go about the method you think is better should > you have a different one... Try playing back FLI animation files. See the allegro documentation and example code for more details, and the allegro home page http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro for pointers on how to convert images to FLI files.. -- ------------ Elliott Oti --------------- ------------- http://www.fys.ruu.nl/~oti ---------