Sounds like program bugs to me anyway  :-)

Could it be that the keyframes only go from 0 to 1 in a clock cycle for the
total set number of frames and so it causes problems because of that?

I had tried increasing the total number of frames incrementally and then doing
another keyframing for each.  It turns out just like if you were to set multiple
keyframes within one set of total frames (in other words I was going back and
resetting the number of frames after each successive keyframe change).
Anyhow, both ways produce a flawed animation.  Only way I could do it right was
to Delete/Scene at the end of each keyframing change and animate again (after
setting up another animation), renaming each previous Avi sequence so as not to
overwrite it, then splice all of them together later in VidEdit.

I didn't see anything wrong as long as there were no in-between keyframes,
unlike what Alex has said here.  If I moved the slider to the last frame and set
the object there only then all was fine.  When I tried more than one keyframe in
one animation sequence then it broke the movement.

Hope that explains better what I was trying to say.  Still, it might not be a
bug after all since it does work for one uninterrupted keyframe animation.

Bob

"Alex Wolff" <ale### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
news:38A75B50.F3380999@gmx.de...
| Bob Hughes wrote:
|
| > I've managed a work around by doing separate segments where I
| > right-click on the
| > Key button before beginning the next part and choosing Delete/Scene
| > keys.  That
| > way it starts fresh where the objects left off from the previous run.
|
| hi xander,
| i've found out some strange behavior of your anim-plugin when doing
| interpolation between keyframes. it may have to do with the problem bob
| hughes described (although i don't understand all of what he said..).
| to reproduce, try this:
| -starting moray with the default scene (one camera, one light)
| -create a simple sphere located at the origin

| around the
|   z-axis
| -click the key-sign to activate animation
| -choose >render>options>25 fps;100frames
| -right click the key-sign>set>selected
| -choose linear interpolation
| -move slider to last frame
| -type in 720.0 degree for z-rotation (key is automatically set)
| -now move the slider and watch the z-rotation values!
| -> there is no rotation but a switch from 0 to 720 at the last frame.
| workaround:
| -set a key at frame 50 with z-rotation 360 AND
|  set a key at frame 25 with z-rotation 180
| -now it works and (that's funny) now you can delete the keys at frame 50
| and 25.
|
| ------------
| another problem with the animation-plugin:
| choosing at the option menu "25 FPS" makes an animation with only every
| 5th frame to be rendered (polyray and povray)
| workaround is to choose "custom", type in 25 FPS, reset the end frame to
| 100 (or whatever it was) and now:
| -click "OK" and then render>animation. don't go back to render>options
| because the options menu will not be the same that you had left...
|
| alex
|

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