/// <summary>
/// Makes a new Anim object from any channel (or the value) of this one.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="iChannelOffset">Pick a channel to copy. Set to -1 to take average of RGB.</param>
/// <returns></returns>
public Anim CopyAsGray(int iChannelOffset)
{
Anim animReturn = null;
try {
animReturn = new Anim();
if (bmpLoaded != null)
{
animReturn.bmpLoaded = (Bitmap)bmpLoaded.Clone();
}
animReturn.gunit = gunit;
animReturn.rectNowF = new RectangleF(rectNowF.Left, rectNowF.Top, rectNowF.Width, rectNowF.Height);
animReturn.rectNow = new Rectangle(rectNow.Left, rectNow.Top, rectNow.Width, rectNow.Height);
animReturn.lFramesCached = lFramesCached;
animReturn.sPathFileBaseName = sPathFileBaseName;
animReturn.sFileExt = sFileExt;
//animReturn.sPathFile=sPathFile;
animReturn.bFileSequence = bFileSequence; //if use sPathFileBaseName+digits+"."+sExt, and sPathFile is first frame
animReturn.iSeqDigitsMin = iSeqDigitsMin; //, 0 if variable (i.exn. frame1.png...frame10.png)
animReturn.lFrameNow = lFrameNow;
animReturn.lFrames = lFrames;
animReturn.iEffects = iEffects;
animReturn.imageOrig = imageOrig;
animReturn.iMaxEffects = iMaxEffects;
animReturn.lFramesCached = lFramesCached;
if (lFramesCached == lFrames)
{
animReturn.gbarrAnim = new GBuffer[lFramesCached];
if (iChannelOffset < 0)
{
for (long l = 0; l < lFrames; l++)
{
animReturn.gbarrAnim[l] = null;
GBuffer.MaskFromValue(ref animReturn.gbarrAnim[l], ref gbarrAnim[l]);
}
}
else
{
for (long l = 0; l < lFrames; l++)
{
animReturn.gbarrAnim[l] = null;
GBuffer.MaskFromChannel(ref animReturn.gbarrAnim[l], ref gbarrAnim[l], iChannelOffset);
}
}
}
else
{
RReporting.ShowError("Uncached Anim not yet implemented", "anim CopyAsGray");
}
animReturn.gbFrame = animReturn.gbarrAnim[lFrameNow];
if (iEffects > 0)
{
animReturn.effectarr = new Effect[iEffects];
for (int i = 0; i < iEffects; i++)
{
animReturn.effectarr[i] = effectarr[i].Copy();
}
}
}
catch (Exception exn) {
RReporting.ShowExn(exn, "anim CopyAsGray");
}
return(animReturn);
} //end CopyAsGray