MGED AnimMate
August, 1996
About AnimMate
AnimMate is a graphical user interface based on the Tcl/Tk widget set,
designed to simplify the BRL-CAD animation process.
Various functions assist in creating animation tables, producing
corresponding animation scripts, and combining and reviewing the
results.
Questions, comments or bug reports relating to this software should be
sent via e-mail to
brlcad-users@lists.sourceforge.net.
AnimMate's Main Menu
AnimMate's
main menu
is created by executing the following
MGED commands:
mged> loadtk
mged> source BRL-CAD_source_dir/tclscripts/anim.tcl
mged> animmate
The
main menu
window presents the following
functions:
- Curve Editor
- Interactively draw, edit, and interpolate
key points as a basis for animation tables.
- Table Editor
- Edit animation tables in text format.
- View Editor
- Store and edit a series of views with
associated time values as a basis for animation tables.
- Create Script
- Create animation scripts from animation tables.
Select between the following types of scripts:
- Combine scripts
- Merge several scripts into one.
- Show script
- Show the animation in the MGED display
- Quit
- Quit the AnimMate program.
First section: Curve Editor
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