3D animations and Website

[janvl]

Hi all,

I have become the question to put an animation on a website,
a donut spinning 3 times and every time it spun once a textline
rolls in underneat, after 3 lines it stops.

I tried it with a free 3d Programm, that is not good, now trying with
Xara3d.

One basic question, filesizes for a demo animation 100 x 200 pix 24 fps and 72 frames vary from 353Kb for gif up to over 1 Mb for swf.
What would be the best compromise between quality and filesize?

Second, is Xara3D in combination with Xara Xtreme 5 pro fit for this?

Thanks for any advise,
Jan

[Egg Bramhill]

Hi Jan, that's not easy to achieve. You can create the doughnut spinning in X3D but there's no way to stop it spinning after 3 rotations in X3D. The text could be a separate animation under the gif which is created in XX flash. You could possibly then lay the swf over the gif on the web page (I take it it's for the web) and have a still image of the doughnut eventually overlay the gif below but you couldn't guarantee the timing.

Generally animated gifs are far larger in size than a flash animations, but not always. The filesize you mention for a swf is very large indeed.

[salaam]

Using the [page break] you can introduce new images such as text.
I did try to upload an animated gif but it kept on converting it to a jpeg

Anas

[salaam]

Flash version.

To stop it from looping, simply add a stop command.

[Egg Bramhill]

Great swf file Anas.

I did try to upload an animated gif but it kept on converting it to a jpeg

That's strange. Never come across this before.

[steve.ledger]

If the gif exceeded any of the upload rectrictions, the system automatically converts to a compressed JPG rather than rejecting it entirely.

[salaam]

Yes, it was a tad too big.
I was so impressed with how real Egg's doughnut was I thought that I would try it. I didn't bother to adjust the different height positions and it doesn't look quite as delicious as Egg's but it was fun.

[janvl]

Hi Salaam,

Your Donut is about what I am looking for and the filesize is acceptable,
how did you produce it?
I have made a turning ring in Xara3d6 (that I just bought) and imported it to macromedia flash 8 as a movie, that works. Putting the stop command is just what I did. Importing text is no problem.

I would be very grateful if you could give me more information.

Jan

[salaam]

1- In X3D paste in your object.
2- Activate the cursor.
3- Press [Return]
4- Type in your text.
5- [Select all]
6- [Copy]
7- [Page break]
8- [Paste]
9- [Page break]
10- [Paste]

Does that make sense?

[janvl]

Not yet but I will try!

I have downloaded and installed a legal full version of X3D but the book
and CD will arrive in a few weeks (or hopefully days).

Thanks