MGED AnimMate

Carl Nuzman
U. S. Army Research Laboratory

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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