You may find one or more of these animations useful for your webpage. The download link is the image itself or its title. If you do decide to use any, please acknowledge the source or better still, add a link to the WaveGuide site.
Here's How the Gifs were Created
A simple rectangular plane was used as the 'Flag' LightWave Object. This was subdivided into a large number of triangular polygons so that a moving ripple displacement map makes the flag appear to wave in the breeze. If you fancy trying this for yourself, just pop over to Tutorial 6, where you'll find all the lowdown.
LightWave5 won't save its renders in .gif format, so the 24-bit images were reduced to 256 colours and converted to Gifs using Image Studio by Andy and Graham Dean. It's a brilliant example of Amiga software written by enthusiasts.
The anim gifs were compiled using WhirlGIF, a command line gem from Kevin Kadow and Mark Podlipec. WhirlGIF for other platforms is available for free download from here. The Amiga version can be downloaded from Aminet.
NOTE: All the frames were rendered against a white background, so if you'd like a special edition rendered against some other colour, waving faster or slower or any other variation, please feel free to send me an email with your requirements.
The images shown below represent the first frame of the animgif file. You should download the complete file to get the complete picture.
