hughes b wrote:
>I see what you mean about the quality. Very strobe-like frame to frame.
>Also, it looks like you used radiosity in your scene file and that is
>probably making the central piece flicker from bright to dark.
Your write I do have radiosity.  I don't remember the avi version having
it.  I ran it over night without radiosity and the flicker is no longer
there.  You can still see the stepping of the frames at 15frames/sec.
Thanks for the help.

>Otherwise it
>ought to remain steady enough even if a mpeg compressed animation, so it
>sure seems radiosity is at fault there. Don't know if I could suggest good
>settings to prevent that.
>
>Using cmpeg the file output type ought to be uncompressed Targa, +ft not

I'll try this next.

>+fc, at least I don't think compressed Targa will work. I've used the
>workable way so long I forget what does not. I also use starting frame
>number 0 not 1, since the command line way won't accept 1 unless you set up
>a file list instead. Maximum resolution is 512x320 I believe, the Cmpeg.Doc
>tells that if you check it. Isn't 1.333:1 aspect ratio anyhow, but other
>res.'s based on multiples of 16 pixels should be okay if lower than those
>numbers.
>
Tony

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