Hello,

I'm trying to figure out the Moray animation plugin and I've run up 
against a few problems and was wondering if anyone had seen this before 
and knows what's going on.

My problem is that when I create an animation with "X" (where X can be 
any value) frames and set the FPS to "X" then render the animation, less 
than "X" frames are actually produced, and the translations are 
interpolated across those frames instead of the original values.  The 
funny thing is, when I do individual renders of frames by selecting the 
desired frame in the keyframer then doing Render->render, the frame is 
rendered correctly with the expected translation values.  The above 
doesn't really make sense, so here's an example of what I'm talking about.

1) I create a new scene with a single cube in it and assign it a solid 
color.
2) In render->options I set the FPS to 24 via the drop down box, then 
the start frame to 0 and the end frame to 23.  I set the output format 
to PNG (not that this makes a difference).
3) In the keyframer I set a linear translation from <0,0,0> at frame 0 
to <23,0,0> at frame 23, and a linear rotation from <0,0,0> at frame 0 
to <23,0,0> at frame 23.
4) Sliding the keyframer back and forth shows all interpolated values to 
be correct between them, eg at frame 15 I have <15,0,0>, <15,0,0> for 
translation and rotation.  If I manually render frame 15, the correct 
POV code is generated for this.
5) I save the scene and do render->animation.
6) Looking at the files produced, I only get 20 of them.
7) Looking at the code generated, the first frame has the correct 
coordinates/rotation of <0,0,0>,<0,0,0>.  But the second one has 
<1.2,0,0>,<1.2,0,0> through to the last one which has 
<22.8,0,0>,<22.7999999,0,0>.

What I want to do is produce an animation of one second, with 24 frames 
moving linearly from A to B.  Not an animation of 20 frames moving from 
A to B via interpolated points.

What am I doing wrong?


Incidentally, is there any way within the generated POV code to know 
which frame you're at?  For example if I wanted to use the insertcode 
plugin to "#include" a different file for each different frame, is there 
a way for me to know what frame I'm at within the code?

Thanks,

-peter

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