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an example .dat file, please

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Papagayo 1.2 won't start on my Mac OS 10.4, although it should. Oh my.

I don't really need it right onw, but could anybody please be so kind and post a (short) .dat-file, so I can write my own by hand?
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It's very simple, actually.

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Thank you very much.

Here's what I did with it:
http://www.slowtiger.de/examples/flag_semaphor2.mov

I needed a way to assign longer phrases very fast to this "character". Writing a .dat is much faster than choosing each letter from that drop-down menu in AS.
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slowtiger wrote:Thank you very much.
Here's what I did with it:
http://www.slowtiger.de/examples/flag_semaphor2.mov
I needed a way to assign longer phrases very fast to this "character". Writing a .dat is much faster than choosing each letter from that drop-down menu in AS.
Hehe, very clever! I'm glad to help, and thank you for sharing this, it's very interesting and I'm sure it will be useful in the future.
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smart thinking! (If only I could read semaphore!!)
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In fact I'd like to have more abilities to "script" my animation. Right now the only program allowing me this to a greater extent would be Flash (and because I know Actionscript), but I don't like to use it.

So I use AS and TVPaint and Photoshop and ReNamer and BBEdit ... a Rube-Goldberg-Construction of a workflow!
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hmm .. so, for example, you'd like to say something like:

character X in Pose Y is at Place P0 at time T0

... using Action "walk" go to place P1 at time T1

or

... using Action "smile" morph to Pose W at time T1

etc ??

I can see how it should be possible to create a set of "per item" commands that the system will properly interleave on the timeline

e.g.

Character X0 {at T0 is in place P0 in pose Y; at T1 is in place P1 using action "walk" ...}
Character X1 {at T0 is ...; at T2 is ...}
Camera {at T0 is Zoom 60 ...; at T3 is Zoom 30 with centre P0 ...}


Or a timeline-based command set:


T0: character X0 ...
T0: character X1 ...
T0: camera ...
T1: character X0 ...
T2: character X1 ...
T3: camera ...

??

But I'm pondering how the "fine tuning" of points / bones would be represented in such a system... it would certainly make you think about how you created the referenceable items... and I'm still wondering whether it would (a) be quicker and (b) give better results than the tools that we have now.

Your thoughts??
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I'm thinking in a different direction. My recent problems revolve around a bigger number of similar "characters" doing similar, but not the same things, basically selections from a bigger repository of "actions". A common problem would be "Action A" - "Action B" with some "transition A to B", but with a number of actions more likely to be 25, with a bigger number of transitions.

I guess any game engine would be able to do this, but it's not worth to incorporate yet another technique into my workflow.

It would already be great if AS allows for editing of multiple objects/layers at the same time...
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