X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd588,390c2ff43a117aad X-Google-Attributes: gidfd588,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-10 11:34:13 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.com!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail From: Markus Gebhard Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art.animation Subject: Re: VT-100 Animation Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 20:32:52 +0200 Organization: T-Online Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <6a503f37.0306091935.6c90b546@posting.google.com> <6a503f37.0306100245.6f7f4ffe@posting.google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1055269965 02 30639 SP1XVKeXSM-23N 030610 18:32:45 X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@t-online.de X-ID: VS4t1TZfYe9fvSGgjw4FTHyCOYaCW+AIpd0J+hFKxTTpVsr-BRUU0+ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <6a503f37.0306100245.6f7f4ffe@posting.google.com> Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art.animation:482 > Good show!! And I thought I was the only VT animation junkie... ;-) Character animation rulez :-) > Do you have any resources on how to go about creating these > animations? No, I only managed to write some kind of Java animation player that is capable of reading and playing most of the animations. This is a hidden feature contained in JavE 5.0 that can be started from the command line: java -cp jave5.jar de.jave.jave.VIViewer g:/VT100/bambi.vt I wanted to make the frame rate configurable (more precisely the timing strategy - some animations contain frames, others just work by modifying single charachters and require different timings), add color support and include a vt100 to JMOV animation converter, but then I ran out of time... Maybe I will finish this this thing one day... There are some manuals around on the web containing descriptions of the character codes used for certain functions (google for "vt100 terminal" - lower numbers like vt52 or so will also do). However I did not find a really good one and found out some of the secrets rather by trying to make the animations work than by looking at the descriptions. > Will mirror your VT collection... thanks. That's all right. I think you have some animations I did not yet see. I will look at them later. Markus -- \-/ http://www.jave.de O_< Get JavE5.0 now! \-/ J|a|v|E /| J|a|v|E /-\ Ascii-Art for everyone / \ - for free! /-\