VIDI Presenter 3D Animator Toolkit

Animator Tool kit Instructions For Presenter Professional v3.0

The tool kit has Think C 5.0.4 examples as well as Think Pascal 4.0.2 and CodeWarrior 8 examples. Header and source files are provided for Path, Jiggle, Gravity, Replace and Wind. Animators have access to the entire database although they are not suppose to change it directly. Having access to the database makes it possible for the Path animator to scan for splines to use and then grab their data. If an animator depends on past events (like remembering what you did last frame) it is best to keep the information around in a handle for the next frame. If you need to get all the information up to the current time, you need to loop from applyTime to currentTime. Calling object info for the last frame will cause a recursive call that is way too deep.

The tool kit provides a 'glue' file. This enables animators to talk to the Presenter program as well as execute some transcendental calls while in noFPU mode. As well as access to some SANE calls not normally available from code resource packs.

Animators and the special things they have:

• PATH -
  • PopUp Menu
  • Scanning Database looking for splines.
  • Display and Entry of floating point numbers.
  • Math for getting points along a spline.
  • Math for figuring rotation in one plane.
  • Moving an Object.
  • Rotating an Object.
• JIGGLE
  • PopUp Menu.
  • Display and Entry of floating point numbers.
  • Random number generator.
  • Modifying just about everything on an object.
• GRAVITY
  • PopUp Menu
  • Display and Entry floating point number.
  • Moving and Object.
• REPLACE
  • Replacement of object geometry.
• WIND
  • PopUp Menu.
  • Display and Entry of floating point numbers.
  • Random number generator.
  • Saving results for next calculation.

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Last update 26FEB96 by Eric Popejoy.