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AnimationLab Lessons 

First Steps

Copying Actors

Commands Import/Export

Actors and Groups

Dynamic Groups

Moving Along a Path

Moving Lights

Recording of drawing modifications

Joining multiple drawings into a single movie

    

The lessons are in the form of ScreenCam movie (*.scm) files.
You can download all lessons at once - ALL_Lessons.zip (12.1M), or each lesson separately.
To play these movies, you will need Lotus ScreenCam Player. Download scplayer.exe (540K)
Lesson 0 - First Steps

Preparatory setting of TurboCAD BMP export filter,
adjusting of AnimationLab file paths and built-in AVI maker.
Creating an actor and assigning commands to it.
Playing scenario in AnimationLab and creating an AVI file.

L0_FirstSteps.scm (1.1M zip)

Lesson 1 - Copying Actors

Copying graphics-actors using TurboCAD facilities. 
Autonaming of the copied actors.

L1_ActorCopy.scm (0.8M zip)

Lesson 2 - Commands Import/Export

Copying one actor's commands for another actor, using AnimationLab "Save/Load Commands".

L2_CmdImport.scm (1.1M zip)

Lesson 3 - Actors and Groups

Combining graphics-actors into a group of graphics. Turning the group into an actor and assigning commands to it.  

L3_ActorGroup.scm (1.7M zip)

Lesson 4 - Dynamic Groups

Using AnimationLab "Attach To/Detach From Group" commands to combine graphics-actors into a dynamic group, which is assembled/disassembled while playing the scenario.  

L4_AttachToGroup.scm (1.3M zip)

Lesson 5 - Moving Along a Path

Moving of an actor along the defined path, following all path windings.

L5_FolByPath.scm (1.1M zip)

Lesson 6 - Moving Lights

Creating actors-lights, and moving them together with other actors along the defined path.

L6_Lights.scm (2.3M zip)


Lesson 7 - Recording of drawing modifications

Using "Recorder Mode" of AnimationLab to Record drawing modifications.

Resulting movie - Hinge.gif 

Recdemo1.scm (0.2M zip)

Lesson 8 - Joining multiple drawings into a single movie

Using "Recorder Mode" of AnimationLab to join multiple drawings into a single movie.

Resulting movie - Dog&ball.gif

Recdemo2.scm (1.0M zip)


    
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