Free graphical animation software for linux

Term::Animation is a Perl module that provides a framework to produce sprite animations using ASCII art. Each ASCII sprite is given one or more frames, and placed into the animation as an animation entity.

An animation entity can have a callback routine that controls the position and frame of the entity. The module can also do collision detection between entities.

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

g3d Graphic Tools project consists of a XML file format and generic development tools for games.
The problem is that often as a games developer you need to work with many 3d editing tools and rendering engines, and there should be an easy and portable way to move objects, levels, etc. around.
By having a common intermediate file format, you only need to write one exporter per tool and one importer per graphics engine. Also, you can develop generic tools which are not tied to any particular engine.
Enhancements:
- Added the skeleton object (beginnings of animation ;)
- Added asset management info in the file header (ie date, time, author, source, description)
- Fixed exporter bugs (3dsmax) relating to heiarchy stuff

Dirsave is graphical utility for intellectually generated senteces urls from you links (example: pic01,pic02 or pic1,pic2).

After generate with 3 clicks you execute program and wget download this files.

Its no hard type:

http://nameserver/folder/pic1.jpg
http://nameserver/folder/pic2.jpg

or

http://nameserver/folder/docum01.xml
http://nameserver/folder/docum02.xml

Its yesterday day!

Dirsave program automatically generate links (and choise 1,2,3 or 01,02,03 or 001,002,003 numeration)!

Its easy and quick!

Animation fade-loop is a plugin for GIMP that can convert an animation to make it look better when played in a continuous loop (e.g. for DVD menus).

"This plug-in copies an animation frame by frame and adds a cross-fade effect at the end so that the last frame blends seamlessly back to the first.

Note that because of the resulting overlap, the output animation is [fade_length] frames shorter than the input. The currently loaded gimp image should be the first frame of the input animation.

GtkOrphan (a Perl/Gtk2 application for debian systems) is a graphical tool which analyzes the status of your installations, looking for orphaned libraries.

GtkOrphan project implements a GUI front-end for deborphan, adding the package-removal capability.

Grafpup Linux is a desktop Linux operating system based closely on Puppy Linux. Grafpups goal is to be as useful to graphic designers and other imaging professionals as possible while still remaining extremely small and fast. How small?
Grafpup is a live cd of only 72mb with current versions of Gimp, Cinepaint, Inkscape, and Scribus. You will be amazed at how much is in there for the size. You will also be amazed at how fast everything runs.
Running from the live cd, the entire operating system loads into ram, including all of the applications. This means that your programs start without any hesitation and respond instantly to your input. Unlike some live cds, however, you dont have to reconfigure every time you reboot.
Grafpup saves all of your settings into a file called pup101 on your hard drive. This file contains your entire home directory, plus any additional programs that you wish to install. Grafpup is also very user friendly, with wizards for doing most system tasks like connecting to the internet and installing to hard disk or usb drive.
There is also a powerful package management system, pupget, with a very extensive and ever increasing list of additional packages available for easy installation. An additional package installer, dotpup, offers single click installation of a long list of software. In other words this is much more than a garden variety live cd. It is capable of being your main operating system and extensible enough to satisfy just about anyone.
How is all of this accomplished? I wish I could take all of the credit but I really have to take my hat off to the developer of Puppy Linux, Barry Kauler. Puppy (and Grafpup) uses the squash filesystem method of compression to reduce the size of the cd image by about two thirds. Then, through the magic of unionfs the whole filesystem becomes writeable again.
For a full explanation please go to the Puppylinux website, www.puppylinux.org. Another aspect of the incredible size to utility ratio is the careful selection of applications that goes into Puppy and has made its way into Grafpup. Applications are chosen for speed and simplicity, avoiding bulky and wasteful code. Grafpup uses icewm as its default (and only) window manager.
KDE or Gnome arent even considered. Opera is used as the default browser and email client, instead of the common combination of Firefox and Thunderbird which would be half again as large. Though small, you will find that ROX-filer is one of the best filemanagers that you will ever use. It just plain works. I have further cut down in certain other areas in order to leave room for some serious heavy duty graphics applications.
Even though things are cut down, you will find that Grafpup is a fairly complete operating system and most tasks can be completed without the need for additional software. You will be able to browse the web, send and recieve email, write and print documents, organize your digital photos, and watch dvd movies and video off the internet.
You will also be able to burn cds and dvds, create impressive graphics and animations, put together professional looking web pages, and create press-ready brochures or other materials for print. And Im talking about the live cd without any additional software.
Visit the Grafpup and Puppy package repositories and you can unlock as much potential as any of the most popular Linux distros out there. There you will find such powerful software as OpenOffice and the Seamonkey internet suite. You can create 3d graphics using Blender, or even install and run a large selection of Windows software using Wine.
Try it and see for yourself. Since it is a live cd there is very little, if any, risk involved. I believe you will be pleasantly surprised at what can be done using such a tiny system.
Enhancements:
- Grafpup 2.00 (final) is officially on the mirrors. This release comes with some really bleeding edge features when compared with previous versions, such as a 2.6.20.2 kernel, revamped package management with dependency resolution, GIMP 2.3.14, Cinepaint 0.22 with the Ufraw plug-in, a brand new control panel, cdrkit replacing cdrtools, Openbox replacing IceWM, and a host of other changes. In addition to the light-weight Openbox desktop, you can also easily download and install both Xfce and KDE. The software repository has blown up to include over 1,100 titles (and counting).

Animadead is a skeletal animation library designed to load and play skeletal animations.
Animadead supports models that are composed of several swappable meshes bound to a single skeleton that can be driven by multiple animations. There is an export plug-in for Maya, and others are in development, including plug-ins for 3D Studio Max and Lightwave.
It is written in C++ and has no dependencies. However, an example implementation is provided that uses OpenGL and SDL.
I wrote a shader in CG for OpenGL, which didnt work well on my system, I think due to the best OpenGL CG profile my card supported doesnt utilize the full potential of my card, and I had trouble with passing the list of bone matrices to the card.
The compiler for the supported profile had a ridiculously low number of uniform parameters I could send. So for my simple boxman demo, which has 41 bones or so, I couldnt get it to work, and I didnt feel like making a model with fewer bones.
So after running into a bit of trouble with CG, I wrote a shader in GLSL, which at first had problems as well, but it turns out all I needed to do was upgrade my graphics drivers. Once I did that I got the shader to work, and its nice and fast.
I plan to have both shaders working well and will provide them with the next release.
Main features:
Exporting and file types:
- Custom file types used for meshes and animations.
- Meshes can be static, or deformable and bound to all or a subset of the skeleton.
- Animations use a skeletal hierarchy and local transformations for every bone at every frame.
Loading files:
- The library loads and caches animations and meshes by filename.
- Meshes are broken down into surfaces, which have a texture name, vertices, faces, and a pointer to user defined data.
- A callback function can be set that can load textures when the mesh is loaded, and set the user data for that surface.
- Models in animations can be moving, but when the model is loaded, the movement of the root bone is extracted and removed. This information is stored, and can be used to move the frame of the model at the speed the modeler intended or used to scale the speed of the animation.
Setup (initialize):
- A model is composed of several animations and swappable meshes, but can also contain blends and bone selection masks.
- Blends are used to calculate a pose, usually from two other poses.
- One type of blend is an animation player, which is used to keep track of the current time in the animation and can generate a skeletal pose at that time (between two frames).
- Another type of blend is a blend between blends. When this blend is calculated, it first calculates the two blends its blending, and then blends those together with a user-defined weight. Since this is a recursive definition, blends can in fact be setup in a hierarchy, and the user only needs to call the top level calculate function.
- A bone selection mask is a selection of a subset of the entire skeleton. The hierarchy is used to make the selection process simpler. Essentially, all bones are the same selection state as their parent, unless set directly.
- In addition to being able to calculate a pose from a complex system of blends, the calculate function can be given an optional bone selection mask, which limits the calculations done for that blend to only the subset of bones defined by the selection. This allows you to calculate different parts of a skeleton with different animations.
Drawing:
- The library doesnt actually draw the model, but provides all of the necessary information for your engine to draw the model.
- Data is prepared and organized for use in vertex shaders.
- A pose can be converted to a set of matrix world transformations. (Most shaders like the data like this)
- Examples are shown that actually draw the model.