Brian Carl Bahr
Professional Draftsman


AutoFLIX

My first successful animation, April 3rd, 1991

  AutoFLIX was an addon for AutoCAD to make presentations and Animations using the 3D abilities of Release 10.  The animator was a set of commands that ran in the AutoCAD editor for defining animation paths and sequences.  It was all sequential command line, no fancy key timing or Hierarchies.  If you wanted fingers to move with the hand but still move themselves you had to noodle out the combined motions yourself.  To get the full rendered glory you also had to have AutoSHADE.  I cant remember if AutoFLIX was part of AutoCAD or came with AutoSHADE.  There was also DOS utilities to handle the data between AutoCAD and AutoSHADE.


Epson 386 and NEC Multisync

  There was also a presentation program for the final product, AFEGA.  This product was more advanced than the samples that I created many moons ago. It has scripting and text menus and the ability to play moved base on logical input for a nonlinear tour.

BSI.MOV
ONE.MOV
TR1.MOV
AFEGAP.EXE

  These .MOV files are NOT Quicktime movies. They can only be played using AFEGAP.EXE under a DOS environment. One that I found works good is DosBox.

  When you run AFEGAP set the -S option to some delay like 30 or 70 and DosBox will do a better job at rendering the results.


  Below is screen dump of AFEGAP.EXE :

                          S H A R E W A R E

If you find AutoFlix(TM) a useful tool in your work, a contribution of
$35 would be appreciated.  When  we receive payment,  we will send you
a  package containing  the latest version of AutoFlix, the AutoLISP(R)
support routines, a typeset and printed  manual  describing  AutoFlix,
and  several  sample  movies  which  illustrate  what  you can do with
AutoFlix. Your contribution helps continue the development of low-cost
design tools like AutoFlix.  Please mail contributions to:
  Autodesk, Inc.
  Customer Service.
  Attention: AutoFlix
  2320 Marinship Way
  Sausalito, CA  94965  U.S.A.
Or, in the United States, call (800) 525-2763 to charge to your credit
card.  Please  feel  free  to  share  copies  of  AutoFlix  with  your
colleagues. (C) 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990 Autodesk, Inc.

AutoFlix is a trademark of Autodesk, Inc.  AutoLISP is a registered
trademark of Autodesk, Inc.

Press any key to continue...
AFEGAP release 1.2 (Project-only). (C) 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990 Autodesk, Inc.
For the IBM Enhanced Graphics Adaptor (EGA).
Call with:  AFEGAPs <movie> to project
Switches for projecting movies:
   -Clabel   Cue start at specified label
   -D        Always replay from file
   -L        Lock keyboard (except ESC Q)
   -Q        Silent replay (ignore sound track)
   -R        Reconfigure pointing device
   -Wfile    Save last frame information
   -X        Supress AFEGA messages
   -F        Project forward
   -I        Ignore *PAUSEs in movie
   -Nn       Project movie n times (0 = forever)
   -P        Project palindromically
   -Sn       Delay n milliseconds per frame


bahr@seclorum.us