X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,815d1808b9d771f2 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-24 14:46:15 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!sjc1.nntp.concentric.net!newsfeed.concentric.net!global-news-master From: mikechat.remove@bluedwarf.spam.net (MJP) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: JavE flyboy.jmov Date: 24 Nov 2001 22:46:07 GMT Organization: Concentric Internet Services Lines: 83 Message-ID: <3c00181d.20081638@news.concentric.net> References: <3bfff93f.12179180@news.concentric.net> <3C000F1F.6AB44356@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.220.177.92 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:11576 On Sat, 24 Nov 2001 22:20:31 +0100, Markus Gebhard wrote: >MJP wrote: >> >> ok, I have edited it to extend the time most of the text boxes >> are on the screen, plus fiddled with color. Let me know what >> you think. >> >> http://www.bluedwarf.net/mikechat/jmov/flyboy.htm > >The dialog still is to fast for me :-( But the movie is cool - I like >the credits most :-) - Thanks! I have thought to do it without the dialog, maybe I will as it gets too clunky to have the delay between frames increased, and I didnt leave myself any room to have the dialog show in two or more frames per-text balloon. This jmov has already taken many hours to make for the few moments it runs and so i wont do much more to it. If ever I make another, possibly longer one, I will have a better idea what to do with dialog. > >And in this JMOV I see that the player needs an additional feature: Some >indicator saying "playing" or so... I could add "this movie will autostart" to the webpage too. With a note to netscape users that they may need to hit reload to get it running. > >> Markus, will we be able to color individual characters? That >> would have been nice in this jmov anyway. > >The answer is no, and I have done this decision a long time ago: > I will not add color to JavE. I have played around with individual >colored character when I was working on the image2ascii converter. At >the first sight the result was cool, but then again no. It is the same >thing as with black/white and color photography: The effect on a >spectator of a color picture comes more from the color than from the >shape, shades, etc. It is easy to impress people with colorful images >but it is much more art with black and white. This is my personal >opinion. Also I should add that I did a lot of black/white photography >in former years. >So I will not add color to JavE - but as the jmov player is open source >anyone can try to enhancing it by adding a color option. > I see. >Furthermore I still have not finished the work on the JMOV editor in >JavE so I better concentrate on that (and other things). Please do. >One more thing about colors: By not supporting colors in JavE there is >an empty space where any other software developer can still do a lot of >interesting things. >Maybe I already have repelled (or demotivated) others with the overkill >of features in JavE. Actually I don't like such monopolistic software >and so I want to restrict myself (although it is not easy ;-)). As long >as I make the rules for what new features will be added, there never >will be color in JavE. > I see. short: http://www.bluedwarf.net/mikechat/jmov/unicycle.htm based on obascii I did {w /) (<) clown on unicycle -- _________________________________________________ /| _____________________________________________ | //| | _ _ _ _______ _____ | | // | | | \/ \/ \\__ __\ _ \ .irc.bluedwarf.net.| | //__| | | \ \ \_ \ \ __/ .www.bluedwarf.net.| | \\ | | | \__\ \ \\ \ \ | | \\ | | |_____\ \__\_____\___\ -=MikeChat=- | | \\| |_____________________________________________| | \|_________________________________________________|