That is incredibly strange.  The animation plugin has worked fine for
me, I haven't had any problems at all.  Have you tried it on another
computer?  Weird man, weird.
	
		Kyle


Johannes Hubert wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> When testing the AnimPlugin I ran into unexpected problems:
> 
> I took an old scene of mine (some large heightfields, otherwise only CSG of
> standard-objects as available from inside of Moray, nothing fancy) where a
> space-bug sits on a rock somewhere on a planet, with a building (sort of
> planet-station) and a moon in the background.
> 
> My test was to animate the space-bug to fly from the landing-platform of the
> station to its original position in the foreground.
> 
> I did so by defining three keyframes (within a 60 frames animation):
> 
> Frame 1: Bug on the platform
> Frame 30: Bug halfway in the air
> Frame 60: Bug at the resting position in the foreground
> 
> (BTW: Very easy to do, takes about 5min :-)
> 
> When "previewing" the animation in Moray by sliding the slider in the
> Keyframe dialog by hand, everything looks fine.
> However, when rendering (raytracing option) to an AVI file, some strange
> (though very interesting effects) appear:
> 
> Already in the second frame, the glass-cupola that covers half of the
> station vanishes. Continuously during all the frames the heightfields used
> for the mountains and hills "slide" out of the picture (cool effect! ;-) and
> about around frame 10-15 the part of the station that would be outside of
> the glass-cupola (if that would still be there) simply vanishes, as if
> "clipped by" the cupola.
> 
> Also around frame 34 or 35 Moray crashes and goes away :(
> 
> Note: The only object actually keyframed is the space-bug (a medium complex
> CSG) and it seems to move correctly in the animation, despite of the other
> objects behaving so strangely.
> 
> To illustrate the problems I will post the AVI (rendering stopped around
> frame 30 before moray crashes) together with some still images in
> povray.binaries.animations
> 
> The stills where shot by setting the slider in the Keyframe dialog to 1, 30
> and 60 by hand, then rendering a still image with the Render->Render
> command. As one can see, everything is fine in the stills: The cupola is
> there, nothing is clipped, and the mountains did not move :-)
> 
> So long,
> Johannes.

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