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From: [e-mail] (Justin Barrett)
Subject: Morphing & Foreground Seq
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 14:47:00 GMT
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While trying to get some supposedly simple animations, I ran into a couple
problems with the 4.0 pre-release for Intel.  I don't recall seeing these
mentioned before, so please forgive the repetition if they have...

1:  Disappearing morph targets
------------------------------
I had two morph heirarchies set up, each with three objects (one original,
two targets).  I had randomly oscillating morph envelopes set for the
first two in each chain, with the envelopes on Repeat.  The objects were
just single-polygon squashed discs with their points radiated out into
different sunburst patterns.  Flare1 (with targets Flare2 and Flare3) was
positioned just in front of Flare4 (with targets Flare5 and Flare6), with
Flare4 sized slightly larger so it could be seen.  When I rendered the
animation out, there were some frames when either the front or the back
object would just disappear entirely, sometimes for two frames in a row!
                                 ??????????

2:  Foreground image problems
-----------------------------
I had a simple image sequence I'd created...two images, one called
Walt001.iff, the other called Walt090.iff, each with a corresponding alpha
image.  I set the FG and FG Alpha images to their respective sequences. I
had a foreground dissolve envelope set to fade in a few frames after the
beginning, then fade out just before frame 90, when the sequence was
supposed to advance to the next image, when it would fade in again and stay
on until the end.  When I rendered individual test frames, everything
looked fine.  When I rendered the whole animation, the envelope seemed to
be ignored...the FG images didn't fade in or out at all.  I again rendered
individual frames, finishing my test on a frame where the FG was fully
visible.  Upon rendering the anim from the beginning again, it proceeded to
render *every* frame with the FG fully visible!  If I test-rendered a frame
with the FG halfway dissolved, it would do them all that way, ignoring the
envelope entirely.
                           ?????????????????


Are these just pre-release bugs?  I'm anxiously waiting for the final to
arrive...and don't know why it's taking so long.....grrrrr.....

         Justin Barrett - [e-mail] - 1:350/401
    Free Spirit Productions   -   Northland Cable   -   Peninsula College

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