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Subject: Re: Animation and the FLYER!!!
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In <3i80ij$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Thierry Humeau) writes:
>
>OK dude,
>
>Keep cool, here we go:
>
>- After you're finished setting up your LW anim scene and are ready to record.
>- go in the record menu, select "render display:toaster"
>- select "medium resolution preview (VT4000)" anim type and OK and ignore any
>message that follows.
>- enter a name for your animation in the save anim file requester.  You should
>choose to locate the anim in one of your flyer drives here.  VERY IMPORTANT, in
>the path window, enter the workbench name of the Flyer drive you want to save the
>anim on, not the DEV name.
>- select automatic render, LW will automatically built a VTASC video clip of your
>3D anim and save it on the proper Flyer drive.
>- After you're finish, a crouton for your anim should appear in the Files windows
>of the Flyer interface.  You can use this clip the same want than a video clip.
>
>Note: They seem to be some playback problem on some anims, mostly when the anim as
>a lot of colors in it (like color gradients,...).  after a few frames, your anim
>will stutter and slow down.  this will be fix in the final 4.0 realese.
>
>Enjoy,
>
>Thierry.
>--

Unless I do have a system problem (will find out as soon as my dealer brings
me the 9gig sitting in his office).  I have an opossing theory of this.

    I don't believe that it is saving as VTASC yet.  I do believe that it is
still saving as a standard med-rez preview.  I have successfully recorded anim
in this procedure, but as long as there isn't a lot of action on the screen or
colors.  This just doesn't swing.  I have a video clip that I have broke down (
several of them actually), and tried this, (reason: this is what I am needing from
the system to do SFX).  I has quickly, and slowly animated a polygon coming up
to the screen with a video clip playing on it, it plays BEAUTIFULLY, until
it almost takes the full screen, then the  every other frame/reversed chroma
nightmare happens.
    Now no matter how colorful of a clip that I have recorded yet onto the
flyer, it has taken it in fantastic.  But if I am recording via animation, the
exact same clip or not, it messes up.
    Conclusion:  There is no VTASC hook putting preview anims into VTASC
format.   If a NewTek phone jockey is telling someone that it is, either they are
    1) Telling people something to appease them,
    2) Just saying whay they are being told to say,
    3) or there is a new version of the flyer out there that we haven't
        been able to get ahold of yet.

    I still think that there is a way to lay the animations down to it.  I
think it is through TPaint using the 'Sacp' command, I have partially been able
to get it to work, as soon as I can get it to do my bidding, I will eagerly get
the scripts out to whomever wants them.

                    Bradley
                kinda fustrated at BMGIA
                    [e-mail]