From: gah AT jet DOT es (Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz)
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Subject: Re: Allegro, DJGPP and large scale animation
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 11:26:37 GMT
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On Sat, 15 Aug 1998 19:37:36 -0400, Bruce Ferguson
<symbiatu AT nettally DOT com> 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..

If the changes from image to image are few, it may be worth storing
the animation as a fli/flc file, since they just store the changes.

You can convert your images to flis with DTA (Daves Targa Animator)
Found a link to it here http://www.lls.se/~mux/area26.htm

Or you can use Smacker: http://www.smacker.com

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