Re: MultiGen Animation Sequences

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Marcus Barnes (marcus++at++multigen.com)
Fri, 2 Feb 1996 12:36:07 -0800

On Feb 2, 8:29am, Angus Henderson wrote:
> Subject: Re: MultiGen Animation Sequences
> Heres some stuff on MultiGen & pfSequences.
>
> FIrst of all the MultiGen loader I use gets the pfSequences wrong. The
> Sequence time is broken making the sequence glitch - everyone out there
> thinks it was me who dropped an image from the fire movie loop but it
> was MultiGen - j'accuse.

I never thought it was you Angus! ;)

A little history: The loader sets the sequence times to an arbitrary value of
0.1 . In fact the pfSequence setup code just does a generic enable of the
animation. I believe that it was never ment to be a definitive setup. I have
never changed this code in my tenure and it's basically from the original V11
loader, back when pfSequence's where not working very well.

> So I set them all to animate correctly by searching my scene tree for all
> sequences, and fix them ...

[munch]

> pfSeqTime((pfSequence*)node, -1, 1.0 / pfGetFrameRate());

This is good! If it's safe and proper for a loader (DBASE process) to call
pfGetFramRate() then I will make this fix to the loader.

?? who knows the answer ??

[munch]

>-- End of excerpt from Angus Henderson

Sorry for any infamy this has caused you Angus.

Regards.

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