Hello Bill,

> A while back, somebody on this list (don't remember who) mentioned
> creating a series of .BMPs in Guide, then running them through a
> program to create an animation (Flash, animated .GIF, MPEG, something
> of that ilk.) However, I can't seem to find this. Can anyone
> recommend software to perform this task?

that was me. You can still find the Venus animation and how I made it
on my Geocities account at
http://www.geocities.com/bernd.brinkmann/venus_animation.html

The link to the GIF Construction Set Professional is
http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/gifcon.html

> I have some thoughts to simplify "movie making" with Guide a bit.
> Basically, you would hit a "record on" button, and each animation step
> or redraw of any kind would produce a new frame. If you wanted to
> create, say, a movie showing the Moon going through its phases, you
> could click on it, then on "moving target" in the Animation dialog,
> then on "record", and start animating. All this would make the need
> for a way to make animation-format files from a slew of still images.

This would be a great feature. But there is a related item which would
also be nice to have and is only available in the DOS-Version: go back
to the previous screens wth ALT B.

Clear skies
Bernd


Bernd Brinkmann
Herne, Germany

http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Bernd.A.Brinkmann/index.html