Move along path animation/bezier curves

[Sannyasin Sivakatirswami]

Jim,

Time for you to crack open any number of tools (ImageReady, GifBuilder, 
etc.) other than Rev to learn about animated GIFs. These are images 
that have a series of embedded frames in the same file. I am not 
expert, but we understand that included in the file data is the length 
of time that any given frame is to be displayed, and if they should be 
displayed repeatedly or not and probably other information... etc.

Making animated GIFS is outside the scope of this  list, but there are 
lots of tools to do so. Of course, animation of any kind is a tedious, 
painstaking process, depending on the level of smoothness you want and 
the file sizes you can live with (more frames=bigger sizes)

Once you have an animated GIF, you simply import it into REV like any 
other image... but, better yet, you can control much of the GIF's 
behavior by script...

googlize for "Making animated GIFs" and you will find a wealth of 
resources.


On Thursday, July 24, 2003, at 10:10  AM, Jim Hurley wrote:

> Maybe I  should be worried out moving the image along the path, but 
> the issue  which motivated my question was getting the wings of the 
> dove to flap when there is (apparently) just one image of the dove in 
> the application?
>
> I have seen much discussion on the list about animated gif's. But I 
> had to see it in action with your wing-flapping dove to appreciate the 
> effect and to arouse my curiosity.
>
> So, again, my question is: How does the dove flap its wings when there 
> is just one image? I should have thought that one would successively 
> hide and show alternating images along the path to achieve the effect. 
> Perhaps you can just refer me to a place in the docs?
>
> Jim