[Radiance-general] ranimate movies

[Jeffrey McGrew]

If you're running in Linux or Cygwin, you can have a little shell
script convert all of your PIC files into TIFFs or JPEGs. This is what
I do, and here is a little shell script I wrote to help (my first! be
gentle):


#!/bin/sh
# Toast's first stab at a useful program
# stand back parts may fly off at any moment

for file in $( ls *.pic )
	do
	echo "Now converting '$file'..."
	ra_tiff $file $file.tif
done
echo "Finished!"

This will just give you a bunch of TIFFs. I then run a script to
convert them all into Jpegs (I do this in two steps, 'cause sometimes
I just want to convert all my PICs to TIFF so I can bring them into
Photoshop when doing stills):

#!/bin/sh
# Toast's second stab at a useful program
# stand back parts may still fly off at any moment

for file in $( ls *.tif )
	do
	echo "Now converting '$file'..."
	convert $file $file.jpg
done
echo "Finished!"

This one relies upon the Imagemagik set of tools and it's excellent
'convert'. Both of these work under Cygwin or Linux with no
modification. Both of these are basic in the extreme, and once I have
the time I'll put something in there that renames them all too, but it 
at least should give you an idea of how you might automate your 
animation workflow...

Jeffrey McGrew

Tarik Rahman wrote:

> Hi
> I'm running ranimate and I get the .pic frame files stored in the directory
> along with the .unf files. What are the .unf files and how can you view the
> animation like a movie e.g. in some media player?
> Thanks
> 
> Tarik
> 
> --
> Tarik Rahman
> PhD student, Institue of Perception, Action and Behaviour
> School of Informatics
> University of Edinburgh
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