Short: The Amiga Hop anim; sound-improved Author: Eric W. Schwartz and Virtual Worlds Productions Uploader: Daniel 'FoX' Bindel (Daniel Bindel studbox uni-stuttgart de) Type: pix/eric Requires: gfx/show/AnimFX.lha Architecture: generic Here is the AGA-sound version of Eric W. Schwartz's well known anim AmigaHop.SndAnim - For AGA Amigas (3 megs needed {maybe less} ) This small looping animation was my first serious attempt at complex animation in Lightwave 3D. Contrary to what many of you may think, I never used the "bones" feature. For you statistic freaks, It was rendered on an Amiga 1200 with a 28Mhz 68030 running Lightwave 3.5. All the objects and bitmap textures were created by myself. It was rendered at 376x240 with shadow-mapping and medium anti-aliasing with motion blur. For those of you interested in animation techniques, this one shows them off rather well. Check out some of my animation Tutorial files available with the CD-ROM release to see what I mean. (BTW, this animation shows off anticipation, squash and stretch, and overlapping action with follow through.) LICENSE: this animation is freely distributable as long as it remains unaltered in any way and this README is included with the animation. These files are NOT, NOT! to be considered public domain. Eric Schwartz E.S. Productions P.O. Box 292684 Kettering, OH 45429-0684 U.S.A. Animations with sound are much more interesting, than without, so we added a comic style sound, and saved it in the SndAnim format. To play it in full Stereo (Dolby Surround®) you need the AnimFX player from 'gfx/show'. Because of the advantages of the new SndAnim format, you can also use your favorite anim player (but without sound). The graphics was done by Eric W. Schwartz. With his permission we (Virtual Worlds Productions) added the sound. For this we used our WaveTracer DS® software package (available as download from our homepage). VWP homepage: wwwcip.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/~lrt25093 Also for download: AnimFX - latest version SndAnims - some demo animations Imperium Terranum II - space strategy game (shareware) CineTracer - raytracer-scenery-file analyzer (WaveTracer DS® package) Note: WaveTracer DS® is shareware. Please read the Virtual News (comes with the package) for more information. Daniel 'FoX' Bindel Virtual Worlds Productions Daniel.Bindel@studbox.uni-stuttgart.de