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Format

DeluxePaint Animation File

Summary

Name
DeluxePaint Animation File
Identifiers
PUID: fmt/1363
Format type
Model
Description
DeluxePaint Animation software was a 1990s graphics editor for MS-DOS and released by Electronic Arts. Uses for the pixel graphic animations created included video games. The ANM file format defines key frame based animations of a vector 3D model (with model data in a separate file). The file consists of ASCII text defining locations of ‘bones’ in the model at key frames. Complex hierarchies of 3D structures can be formed to decrease file complexity for common animations. Events can be used to chain shorter animations into longer animations.
Note
https://gillius.org/cg3/anmfile.htm#:~:text=The%20ANM%20File%20format%20is,in%20a%20linear%20time%20space. http://www.textfiles.com/programming/FORMATS/animfile.txt
File extensions
anm
Source
The National Archives and Records Administration / The National Archives and Records Administration

Internal signatures

DeluxePaint Animation File

Note
BOF: Magic bytes ’LPF ’ 0x0001

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length
Absolute from BOF
Offset
0
Max offset
0
Byte Sequence
4C5046200001
Endianness
None

Changelog

  • Added in V97

    Release date
    1 October 2020

    DeluxePaint Animation File: Signature developed and samples provided by The National Archives and Records Administration.

    DeluxePaint Animation File: Full entry added. Submitted by The National Archives and Records Administration.