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From: hrlaser@pnet02.cts.com (Harv Laser)
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Subject: Re: Sculpt3d animation
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Date: 1 Dec 88 09:20:36 GMT
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rickfor@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Rick Forrest) writes:
 
[about how he is having problems saving Sculpt frames and then making
an animation out of them]
 
>So, what am i doing wrong? Do I need to specify some option within Sculpt to
>get the same color map, or is there some other PUBLIC DOMAIN program that
>will compress the frames for me?
>
 
There's a hidden menu item or two in Sculpt and you probably don't know 
about.

When you run the program, click into the upper left hand
tri-view window (the one labeled "down") and type CONTROL-D. 

A requester will pop up asking you for a "magic number." Delete the "0"
in the gadget, type "123" (sans quotes) and hit return. Now mouse over
to the observer menu, selection "mode" and way down at the bottom you'll
see a couple of new items you never saw before, something like "lock
palette" or "color lock" and "color unlock."

Lock the palette and THEN make your separate frames. 

There are some other "magic numbers" for that requester that do some other
things, less useful... I have a file about it here somewhere which I
can post if anyone would find it useful.  

My question would be - why are these features hidden like this to begin
with?  They're not documented anywhere in Sculpt's manual.

Harv Laser, Sysop, The People/Link AmigaZone.  Plink: CBM*HARV
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