"Chris B" <nom### [at] nomailcom> wrote:
> "cpmac" <web### [at] cpmaccom> wrote in message
> news:web.47b947756905f6bf4aecd75d0@news.povray.org...
> > I've seen this problem posted in 2006 but no answer. Perhaps someone can
> > resolve
> > the problem now.
> > I've just installed 3.6.1c. I'm using XP home.
> > I tried an animation - pp00animationexample01.pov - and saw Ann walking to
> > nowhere. I tried another with no result. I tried
> > pp00animationexample01.pov
> > again. No animation. I've rebooted, reinstalled Pov. No change. There must
> > be
> > some simple ajustment to make somewhere to get the animations going again.
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> The file pp00animationexample01.pov  is part of POV-Person the Version 2
> Alpha release rather than being part of POV-Ray.  This explains why
> reinstalling POV-Ray has no effect. To reinstall POV-Person you can extract
> a new copy from the zip file.  If you've lost the zip file you can download
> a new copy from http://www.geocities.com/povperson/.
>
> The 'animation' you should see when you render this example file with the
> POV-Ray animation options set is indeed a scene where the 'Ann' figure is
> walking along against a black background. The camera and light are moved at
> the same rate so that a single walk cycle can merge seamlessly with the next
> walk cycle (hence she's going nowhere). As Stephen mentioned this doesn't
> actually create an animation, but instead renders a set of individual images
> that can be composed into an animation by using a separate animation program
> (e.g. GIF Constructor Set).
>
> If you run it twice in succession with the same POV-Ray animation settings
> it should generate the same sequence of images again. When you say there was
> 'no result' do you mean that the sequence of frames were generated but were
> all black or that there was an error message thrown and the rendering
> stopped?
>
> Regards,
> Chris B.
The first time I ran it Ann was walking in the render frame. The other times I
just had the static figure. Only one image is rendered.

If I open say the animation file float2.pov which comes with POv ray what should
I do to make it an animation?

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