I'm playing catchup mode now that I have an AmigaOne system :) I'm looking at different approaches to animating on the AmigaOS 4.1.
Can we use any USB webcam such as any from Logitech? from my quick search in this forum we can't as yet? The concept for the camera capture is to point it at a flat surface and draw with a laser light.
IIRC, there are a few select old USB webcams that work. Webcams using the USB video/webcam standard don't work.
If you're good at drawing by hand, then I think that some Wacom tablets may work. Broadblues should be able to tell you which graphics tablets are supported, as his SketchBlock program supports them.
Good to know that it might be possible using webcams, thanks for the info.
AFAIK those older webcams only allow single shots to be taken so they're suitable for the old style point it out the window and leave it running permanently updating every few seconds/minutes type applications. streaming video from web cams does not work as the usb stack does not support it.
Amiga user since 1985 AOS4, A-EON, IBrowse & Alinea Betatester
I made the animation in order to prove that old software is still very useful, and that we can be productive on NG systems. The only new software written specifically for OS4.x that I used was Digital Universe and FFShop. Almost everything else was old 68k software running under OS4.x Petunia or WinUAE.
In the 1990s, when I had an A4000/040, I could not conceive of animating such a project without additional hardware (VT4000, TBC, etc.). Processing thousands of frames with ImageFX and FFShop is much easier and faster nowadays on NG systems and emulated systems.
I somewhat wonder if my little animation had anything to do with A-Eon picking up both ImageFX and Aladdin for further development. Whether Trevor or Matthew were influenced or not, I'm glad they are updating the software so that someday I can do better animations.
Edited by interrogative on 2016/8/17 11:40:20
Sold the SAM460ex lite... waiting for money for X5000 or A1222 and OS 4.2
Before I followed the link I thought this was about "Aegis Sonix" from the good old days.
But then I realised it is not the famous synthesizer software by Aegis, but some sort of WebCam software.
Can you explain why the name "Sonix" was picked for it? Is it somehow related to "Aegis Sonix"?
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