NCC-1701-D IN-WARP DEMO
                         by Maurice Molyneaux
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TITLE:      WARPCRUZ.SEQ
ARTIST:     Maurice Molyneaux
DATE:       December 22/23, 1990
RIGHTS:     This animation may be distributed freely as long as this
            text accompanies all copies of the animation and the
            artist's initials are not removed from the animation.
FILE TYPE:  Cyber Paint .SEQ (sequence) file
PLAYBACK:   Cyber Paint or AnimateX program (Atari ST)
            Autodesk Animator (IBM PC)


THE ANIMATION

This animation depicts the Galaxy Class U.S.S. Enterprise cruising
through space (at about warp 7).  The ship itself does not move in the
animation (otherwise it would not be able to "loop" smoothly), but the
background DOES, with a multi-layered starfield whizzing by at warp
velocity, complete with the Next Generation's customary streaked-star
effect.


HOW-TO

The animation was created using several programs.  The Enterprise was a
3-D model constructed in Cyber Sculpt (it's a 53K object) and a static
image of it was rendered with CAD-3D.  The starfield was created using
CAD-3D, Cyber Control, and the Cyber Star accessory (by Paul Dana).  Six
separate star "elements" were created for the effect, and matted together
using Cyber Paint (five elements for the streaked stars, one for the
non-streaked ones).  A stationary background "plate", was "painted" using
Cyber Paint, and running lights and blue glow around the Enterprise's
magnetomic warp field generators were added using the same software.


MEMORY

This IS a rather sizable file, with hundreds of stars zinging by, and
therefore requires at LEAST 1 meg of memory to view.  If you have only a
1-meg ST, you'll only be able to view it using ANIMATEx.PRG because Cyber
Paint won't leave enough free RAM to load the whole thing on 1-meg.  If
you have only 512K... tough luck.

In FACT, The animation has been "trimmed", that is, the top and bottom of
each frame was "cut off" in order to cut the file down to a size that
would work on 1-meg STs!  That's the reason for the "widescreen" format.


I can be contacted on DELPHI by sending mail to MAURICEM.