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I had seen the tutorial of the spinning globe on here and I had seen one done on a flash site. So I decided to try my hand at it with Xara and try for a glass one. I made this one an animated gif not a flash file. I used clipview to make this happen.
pretty cool chris...
Thanks raynerj, appreciate the comment.
Very nice Chris.
Chris,
Good job. Keep at it. Reverse rotation, unless this is what you intended. You can also play with the speed a little if you wish.
Very good, Chris.
ron
Excellent.
Gary
nice work, except.... the continents on the back side are pointing in the wrong direction. if the 'elbow' of S.A. is ponting right on the front, it should be pointing left on the back. (see below). sorry, i don't mean to be ungenerous.
Thank you..Quote:
Originally Posted by parahandy
Thank you.. Will play with your ideas when I get some time.Quote:
Originally Posted by RonDuke
Thank you..Quote:
Originally Posted by gwpriester
Yes I had noticed that. I still have some tweaking to do to it. I was just messing around at first. So once I get some more done to it it should be more accurate.Quote:
Originally Posted by GeoBen
Thanks for the comments. Always appreciated. :D
beware... Ron got me doing this thing... took me weeks to figure it out while i neglected other projects. My solution looks much more difficult than his though.
anyway.... it was fun... if infuriating.
geo.
Very nicely done, Chris, and Geoben. That inspires me to go back to my last Xara3D version, and finish it.
Mike
Here's another version.
ron
pretty neat Ron. The highlight on the globe just doesn't work very well. Try saving it as a AVI and then it should look really cool... (the color reduction in the gif just messes up that highlight.)
Still looks nice tho...
But I think the AVI would look really cool... You could do a Utube slide show of you car/bike drawings... Maybe to wipeout by the sufaries (SP)...:)
A wireframe version.
ron
Wow really looking greatQuote:
Originally Posted by RonDuke
Beautiful globes here. Great works!
Sven-Ingvar
I Like the "wireframe" version better. Although the original is good too. So when are you gonna build the slide show?
Nice work Ron!!
Not sure which one I like best.
Nice WireFrame :)Quote:
Originally Posted by RonDuke
Very cool Ron
When I magnify in 20,000 times on california I see one of your awsome
cars in the driveway:rolleyes:
Thanks for the suggestions and the compliments.
John,
How do I make an avi file? I don't see that on the export options in PRO.
ron
Do you use X3D for the animation? That will do an AVI export. But it on a green or blue background and we can make your globe rotate anywhere...
Or you could export each frame as a .png with a transparent 740X480 background, then import em into a video editor program and construct a very clean version there.
If you need help, hollar...:D
No, It's all done in Xara Pro.
ron
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Originally Posted by raynerj1
okay... this will be a wittle harder, but...
SAve each frame as a transparent png... hopefully with successive names such as frame1, frame2, etc. A NTSC (Standard American Video) is 740X480, the closer to that size, the better the animation will look. NTSC runs at 30 frames per second. IF you only have 5 frames, then the animation will be very short and the globe will spin mighty durn fast.
Import each png into a video editing program...
then recontruct the Still shots into an animation...
Add title work and you have the start of your world famous car show video...
don't forget the babes... or no one will buy it...:)
Here is the one I threw together for mike sims...
John,
I just played Armillary.wmv and would love to know what the music clip was.
I just love bluegrass as well as the blues. (Rather disappointed there were no babes, though). ;)
Saludos,
Bob.
Chris, I must apologise for jumping into this thread without acknowledging your original posting. Bad form that, and I'm sorry.
I liked the original animation a lot (don't you just love 'em?) I'd be interested to see a tweaked version too,Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris
Saludos,
Bob.
I will see if I can dig it up. It was a tune my father-in-law has the rights to use... so I used it to for some background music... I will try and dig out the artist and tune for you. It is a nice jumping tune...:D
the babes are on the pay as you go site...:)
Can't find the link ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by raynerj1
Thanks for trying, John.
Saludos,
Bob.