In directdraw, the common method to do animations is to stick each frame next to each other in a single bitmap. The question I pose is this: Is there any easy way to stick these images along side each other, or is it possible to produce directly from a 3d application? Thanks in advance, Pogo.

I use a photoshop plugin called Grid which creates grids of whatever size you specify. I then render the animation as a series of bitmaps and paste the frames into the grid. Once you get the process down it doesn't take long at all. I setup Actions in photoshop to select all->Copy->Switch to the other document->Paste->Close original. I can do an animation in only a few minutes this way.

If you do use that Grid plugin make sure you specify a size of 1 pixel larger than the image you're pasting in.

The url for that plugin is http://www.users.cloud9.net/~gparet/photoshop/

[edited by - Cozmo on September 17, 2003 12:46:11 PM]