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Title: Saving animation on a mac
Post by: Drumhead Dad on March 17, 2015, 06:31:53 PM
I need some help saving an animation made in Mandelbulb 3D so I can play it bac on a mac. I downloaded the mac version but when it comes to all the drop down windows the all seem to be in windows format
I made an animation,saved it for further work but when I went to open it its all in .bmp which is a bitmap and apple cant read...... the only way I can watch it is to open as layers in Gimp and then use the animation playback machine to watch.
What am I missing here

Please help


Title: Re: Saving animation on a mac
Post by: Sockratease on March 17, 2015, 09:35:41 PM
I need some help saving an animation made in Mandelbulb 3D so I can play it bac on a mac. I downloaded the mac version but when it comes to all the drop down windows the all seem to be in windows format
I made an animation,saved it for further work but when I went to open it its all in .bmp which is a bitmap and apple cant read...... the only way I can watch it is to open as layers in Gimp and then use the animation playback machine to watch.
What am I missing here

Please help

I have a mac, but it runs OSX 10.5 - so this may not apply, but when I ran MB3D I used WINE as an emulator and everything worked exactly as on my windows machine, drop down menus and everything  (actually - I never heard of that problem - what do you mean by windows format drop down menus?).

As for bmp files, just change it to png in the animation maker window   :dink:

Once running WINE, go to Sourceforge and get the program VirtualDub.  Best free program ever for working with image sequences despite being windows only.

I do not know of any mac programs that will play an animation sequence without spending a fortune!  You need something on a par with Adobe Premiere / After Effects to do that.  

Good luck with it and I hope that helps   O0