# 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

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## 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:
  - Object Script
  - View Script
  - Articulated Track Script

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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