Introduction

 

Purpose of the software

StoryBoard Builder, or SBB in short, is a tool that helps to produce animation. Its initial goal is to propose tools for people wanting to produce new animation for Civilization III, but it could also be used for other purpose.

However, this manual covers only the production of animation for Civilization III. If a user wants to use the software for something else, he will have to find alone how to do it.

SBB is made of 2 modules.

Note that this software takes as input bmp or pcx files, and produce true color bitmaps. Thus, the software is not sufficient to produce animation for Civilization III. FLICSTER, a program by Moeniir, can be used to produce the needed pictures from Civilization III animation (*.flc files), and then produce the final animation from the bitmap generated by SBB.